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: None

Group coordinator: None

Curators: None

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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