Re: Database

Dear Jim,

Thanks for the suggestion; I will look into it.

In my studies I see the need for a Pāli dictionary of expressions, connective phrases, unusual compounds, rare or difficult words, hapax legomena, ambiguous words, technical terms, grammatical terms, etc. to complement existing dictionaries. It would not cover the same territory as existing dictionaries and would also provide derivations and have room for notes so that a summary of discussions like the one we had on Buddha, Pāli, etc. could be included and referenced back to the source. It would also include translations of the Pāli terms in other languages, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan, for example.

Ven. Bodhi has published a Glossary of Buddhist Technical Terms compiled by Ven.Ñāṇamoli which is good, but obviously not complete; there's definitely a need for such a dictionary as I describe, but it would take years to compile anything significant.

Once I find a suitable data base format, I would invite members of the group to submit entries and any that are controversial the group could discuss; I'm not sure exactly how it would work yet; right now it's just an idea,

Best wishes,

Bryan

From: "'Jim Anderson' jimanderson.on@... [palistudy]" <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [palistudy] Database

Hi Bryan,

A wiktionry might also be worth looking into. I did some checking and found
that there is a wiktionary for Anglicized Pali words in existence. See for
example:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pali

You might be able to use the same software to create a much more specialized
diktionary for handling such items as rare Pali words and technical terms
(grammatical, etc).

Best wishes,

JIm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Levman bryan.levman@... [palistudy]"
<palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
To: <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: January 4, 2015 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [palistudy] Database

Hi Tim,
Yes I would like to have the ability to include sound and image files.
Right now I see about 8 fields:
HeadwordDefinitionDerivationTibetan/Chinese and other language
equivalentsCanonical contextNotesReferencesSound and/or image files
Someone has suggested that I use Wordpress which has a dictionary add-on, so
I'm looking into that. Thanks for the reference to Intuit Quick Base, so
I'll look into that as well,
Best wishes,
Bryan

From: "Tim Kiely thetimkiely@... [palistudy]"
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To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2015 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [palistudy] Database

Bryan,

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