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Re: Shareable/centralizable dictionary server software? (WAS: Size of your dictionary)

From:Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...>
Date:Saturday, April 4, 2009, 23:48
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:19:51PM -0400, Alex Fink wrote:

> Plus SIL Shoebox (or Toolbox these days?), which already has many useful > features in its format, and is used by lots of field linguists and stuff. > In fact one should probably be familiar with Shoebox's features before > embarking on this (I'm not, not beyond the barest), but e.g. it was made to > be able to track instances of your words in your corpus much like the thing > you suggest for the example sentences.
This reminds me that there is an open-source Shoebox replacement, Kura, in development on kura.sourceforge.net. It was started by conlanger Boudewijn Rempt, but has been handed off to someone else. Check it out! Amanda