[Xerte] Re: Dictionary Web Service

[Alistair McNaught]

Is the Becta Vocab studio work relevant or useful?
Intro here -
http://industry.becta.org.uk/content_files/corporate/resources/events/20
06/october/mikecollett_launch.pdf

With Becta's demise it has been left somewhat in limbo but still
continues in these incarnations:

http://www.k-int.com/node/24
http://www.vocman.com/vms

Also I don't know how current this page is but the Collections Trust
were looking for partners for similar work:
http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/index.cfm/home/project-opportunities1
/project-proposal-cultural-vocabulary-studio-and-bank/

Hope that helps

Alistair


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 03 February 2011 11:19
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Dictionary Web Service

Like I said, it sounds like one of those beautifully simple ideas that
if no one else has done we ought to do. It would fit well with the whole
xpert / open Nottingham agenda.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
Sent: 03 February 2011 10:54
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Dictionary Web Service

> I looked at it and could parse the page easily enough, I'm just not
> sure it's quite what I'm after: the Glossary I have in mind is not
> quite the same thing as a dictionary. In the past I've made Glossaries
> for pieces of courseware, and the problem is they are all separate /
in
> different formats etc. One *big* glossary that all things could call
on
> might be really useful.

Yes, I can see that, though I reckon you'll not be able to find one.
Essentially, a glossary is a stripped-down dictionary, so that you
purely get the definition, not grammatical or entomological or usage
stuff. Unfortunately, there's not much call for something so
stripped-down for general vocabulary so you'll be lucky to find a
'glossary of everything' I reckon. There are glossaries for specific
subjects (eg Jargon dictionary, Glossary of linguistic terms, Economics
glossary) but they often don't exist in machine-readable form.

I'll have a further hunt as it's an intriguing problem. It might be
worth getting in touch with someone in the language centre.

I understand your problem. E-learning resources that we've created often
have glossary terms written by teachers, which runs into the problem of
different teachers defining the same term differently, so a 'definitive'
glossary would be useful.  But then, that's what a dictionary is
supposed to be ;)

Fred

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