Universal dictionary system

Description

The Universal Dictionary system provides a consistent interface to a large number of existing free dictionaries from a variety of languages. You can search for a word in multiple dictionaries and languages at once and compare the results; some definitions include pictures and further descriptions and resources on the word they define.

• Links

• http://www.dicts.info/ - main interface, minimalist

• Languages

• http://www.dicts.info/index2.php - sitemap, listing all the languages available

• Size

• Dictionaries in 78 languages

Formats

• Formats materials are currently in

• UTF-8 plain text
• XDXF (XML)
• TBX (XML)

• Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from curent packaging)

• http://www.dicts.info/uddl.php - contains information on how to download the dictionary files and use them with existing free dictionary applications on your own computer

Curator Info

Group

Group coordinator

Contributing groups and their curators

Allottable size

Assessment

Scope (subjects, ages, other)

• Subject - language studies, writing
• Ages - 8 and up

Completeness (comprehensiveness for given topic and audience)

• Excellent; comprehensive list of high-quality free dictionaries

Multilingualism (specifically es, pt, en, ar)

• Excellent

Quality (incl. suitability for audience)

• Contains a lot of useful content, but not in the most user-friendly navigable form (as a webpage). We need to figure out how to package this better.

Freeness (license and format)

• http://ww.dicts.info/doc/licence.php - description of their license policy. Basically, they use only free dictionaries (but don't describe what "free" means) and all contributions to a specific dictionary file will be considered part of that dictionary project and be released under the same license as the original dictionary file.

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