European Dictionary Portal

This is the source code for the European Dictonary Portal developed by the European Network of e-Lexicography.

• The website is an ASP.NET application and can be found in the Website folder.

• The back-end database is an SQL Server database and can be found in the Database folder.

• The list of dictionaries can be found in the Catalog folder, but this is only an occasional backup and is not necessarily up to date. The most recent version can always be downloaded from the portal itself.

Documentation

• The structure of the portal's dictionary catalog is explained in the Curator's manual.

• Some technical documentation is available in this GitHub repository's wiki.

Publications

If you are referring to the European Dictionary Portal from an academic publication, it is recommended that you cite this presentation.

• Michal Boleslav Měchura (2017) ‘How (not) to build a European Dictionary Portal’, Final Conference of the European Network for e-Lexicography, Leiden, September 2017 (video recording).

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  booktitle = {Final Conference of the {European} {Network} of {e-Lexicography}},
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Other relevant publications

A vision paper for the future development of the portal:

• Michal Boleslav Měchura (2017) ‘Towards a metadata infrastructure for online dictionaries’, Meeting of the European Network for e-Lexicography, Budapest, February 2017.

A critique of the portal:

• Caitlin Gura and Eveline Wandl-Vogt (2017) ‘The Museum as Metaphor: the future of the European Dictionary Portal as User-Centered Interface’, Meeting of the European Network for e-Lexicography, Budapest, February 2017.

Publications on an inventory of European dictionaries from which the portal had emerged:

• Gerbrich de Jong (2014) ‘Report on a survey of European dictionaries’, ENeL workshop, Bled, Slovenia, September 2014.

• Gerbrich de Jong (2014) ‘How to interpret the Excel file with the list of dictionaries’, Report from ENeL short-term scientific mission, August 2014.