On 01/01/11 18:46, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > My apologies for the mis understanding there Lee. I think the problem we > would run into is 2 different schools of thought on how the same goal should > be achieved.
Possibly, but then that is the nature of collaboration is it not? In any case, both projects share something in common, and that is crowd-sourcing. Thus both would presumably benefit from merging those 'crowds' together. What I would suggest is pursuing my first idea as a starter (assuming the wiktionary people are amenable at all to it) >1) Define a HTML standard which would allow the scraping of wiktionary > articles for spellings, alternatives and localised spellings, > definitions, etymological information, synonyms and antonyms. It could be as simple as adding custom tags (i.e. <alt-spelling>, <loc-spelling lang="fr-FR>, <antonym>, <synonym>, etc...) to wiktionary articles. If implemented properly this provide the grounds for dicollect (and other similar projects) to scrap wiktionary for alternative and localised spellings, antonyms, synonyms and alike. In any case, I suspect this would represent a large undertaking. Especially if such a collaboration went beyond the above suggestion into other territories involving language. Which is why I suggested starting up a separate (from LibO) language standardisation project under the broader banner of The Document Foundation. Kind Regards Lee Hyde -- "I foresee a universal information system (UIS), which will give everyone access at any given moment to the contents of any book that has ever been published or any magazine or any fact. The UIS will have individual miniature-computer terminals, central control points for the flood of information, and communication channels incorporating thousands of artificial communications from satellites, cables, and laser lines. Even the partial realization of the UIS will profoundly affect every person, his leisure activities, and his intellectual and artistic development. But the true historic role of the UIS will be to break down the barriers to the exchange of information among countries and people." -- Andrei Sakharov, Saturday Review/World (August 24th, 1984) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***