Again, the problem is not and never has been the technical part, but the data. In short:
* Finding a good source. * Getting permission for online publication. * Get it typed. * Find proof-readers. And then different presentations (web, CD, ...) is just a matter of an afternoon... On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > [snip] > > I'm sure this dictionary must have been funded by the Iranian > > government and no profits expected. I'm shocked to see that less than > > a dozen US universities have purchased it. I should think the author > > and publisher would be very happy to see it put online and all the > > efforts go to some use. Surely they will agree if their name is kept > > with the data! As for the technical part, I no longer have any doubts > > as to the abilities of the members of this group, especially after > > hearing the keyboard hack job for the sake of the ZWNJ earlier today! > > :-) > > I did the keyboard job just because I thought it's a lot easier to use > Shift+Space instead of Shift+B, and also because I was in the process of > typing in a lot of Persian data. It took only about half an hour (not the > time to download the MSKLC tool of course) and improved my typing speed > considerably. > > About your proposal, I'm personally interested in doing the technical part > of the job. I volunteer to implement a web interface for the dictionary, > and I can also provide the hosting for the web interface. I can provide > some amount of web space for the data as well, but I think we'll need other > people's help as well, because I would guess the whole data would be *huge*. > If the data has to reside on multiple web servers, I can code some sort of > distributed query mechanism which transparently fetches the definitions for > remote web servers and display them to the end user transparently. > > > ------------- > Ehsan Akhgari > > Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) > > List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > PersianComputing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
