>> Keth, the new policy in the dictionary matter seems to
>> be to OCR the thing in. I encourage you to write to Svanni,
>> the project coördinator for details of how you can help.

>Well, if the dictionary is intended only for the "midnott sol"
>website, I think it is a project unrelated to this course.
>However, if the plan is to make a dictionary whose main site
>will be the norse_course web site, then that is a different
>matter.

>I wrote up the first dictionary page so that we should have
>something to base the discussion upon. A "model page", some-
>thing that people can criticize.


Well if you have read my posts you would have seen that though I will be
posting the dictionary at Midhnott Sol, I have offered to give all the files
we work on, .GIF, .RTF, .TXT, .HTML or any other that may be preferred to the
Old Norse Course to post at the course's web site and to use as the owners
see fit. I will also offer all the files to Sean Crist who has been kind
enough to not only scan the files for us but also kind enough to allow us to
post the files as well. The volunteers I have so far are not only from this
list but other lists I am on. My intention from day one had been to make
this a community project and make it available to Norse Course and Sean
Crist.

I am not trying to steal anyone's thunder as it were, I just saw an
opportunity to begin work on something I felt would be of great use to my
fellow students as well as Asatruar in general. I also felt that I had the
resources and connections to get the project done quickly if enough people
volunteered. We presently have six volunteers counting myself. We are going
to get the project done. You are welcome to work with us.

I just talked to Weyland today and the OCR is going well with only a few
minor problems. The program is having problems recognizing the "Þ" character
but the program can be "trained" and he's working on that. It should not be
long before he has the files ready. I am assuming that .RTF would be the
preferred format? I have a program that can convert .RTF to .HTML files as
well.

Also the .GIF files index I am working on should be up to the words beginning
with "S" by Friday at the latest. That is as far as I can go until Sean
scans the other 200 pages. (approx.).

-Svanni




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