Re: Zoega's Dictionary - Project Proposal

Haukur Thorgeirsson wrote:

>
> I agree that having an ON dictionary publicly available
> on the web would be a great aid for undertakings such
> as this course.

Yes! Otherwise it's really slow, I only saw the first .tiff, and it
looks like a good dictionary (most dictionaries floating around just
give the word in the other language, with no real info about the use
[I'm talking in general, not specifically ON])

> >What I was thinking is that each person could take a letter. Like one
> >person do all the words beginning with "a" and another person do all
> >the words beginning with "b" and so on.
>
> Good idea. With enough people this would be a non-insane method.

Good idea :)

> >If we could get several people working on it like that, either typing it or
> >proofreading OCR scans, we could knock out in pretty quick and I'll post it
> >at my site as it get's done along with an index to make it easier to find the
> >words.
>
> Those of us who know the language could, perhaps, best serve as final
> proofreaders. We can spot errors much more easily than others (because
> we only need to read the text, not to compare it with the original).

*Very* helpful! Proofreading by comparing with the text is a real pain
(been there, done that).

> >I could convert the tiff's to .gif files so no one would have a
> >problem viewing the graphics.
>
> That would be great as I've still not managed to view the .tiff files.

I think there are some copyright issues about .gif files... not sure
exactly what it is, around here computer laws are either non-existant or
ignored.

> Volunteers please form a line:)

I have a computer that's free most of the time (pentium 166mmx with
32mb RAM), it has an OCR program that came with the scanner... but I
have used it about twice and for spanish, so if I could get a sample
column so I can try tune it it'd be great, I could get about 4 hours of
OCR'ing per day if everything goes well, depending on many things. I
also have this machine, a pentium 3 with 128mb RAM (I don't really know
how much does an OCR program need...) and it has both win98SE and linux
SuSE 7.0 (the other pc has win95) installed, so if there is any
downloadable program that's good (I have my doubts about the one in the
old pc...) I could get a lot of work done.
Angasule

PD: Heil :)