Import Centre

What Is "Importing"?

FreeDict not only distributes dictionaries crafted by hand, but imports and exports also various free and open data sources. The advantage is that we provide a common format for all dictionary and hence every dictionaries benefits from measures, that we take to bring dictionaries to new platforms.

Importing Dictionaries

Dictionaries should be imported by a program or script, which produces repeatably the output source for the same input source. The program must be open source, preferably GPL3+. The program/script has to export to TEI P5.

The output dictionary has to be placed in the fd-dictionaries repository and need to follow the ISO 639-2 naming conventions both for the directory as well as for the file name. A German-French dictionary is hence called deu-fra and the TEI file is deu-fra.tei (all lower case).

Documented Importers

Please document your importers here Include the used language, usage hints and other instructions. If more than 4 lines, create a separate wiki page.

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