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The first step is to identify the structural components of the dictionary and test if they can be represented in TEI. Some steps to consider may be: Identify the apporpriate language code (ideally BCP 47) for the linguistic varieties involved in the dictionary project Check the TEI guidelines (section 9, Dictionaries) For existing dictionaries, try to find one example for all possible variants of the entry. Experiment with an XML editor (like Oxygen) and a TEI schema.

These resources can be corpora as well as other dictionaries, used as references or direct sources to build the dictionary. Depending on the cases, this step may require digitizing printed text (see the related scenario on digitization), and/or build a normalized and lemmatized corpus (see here the related scenario).

Choose a tool for editinig the dictionary, and also consider the back-end. For the latter one, we can discern two prototypical approaches: systems based on relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.) and native XML databases (eXist, BaseX).

"For web publication, it may be necessary to set up a rich envirnomment with complex querying funcionalities. Tools like ElasticSearch can help provide such a framework, but require development skills. For printed output, you can choose betwen XSL-FO, CSS for Paged Media, LaTeX or InDesign Markup Language with postprocessing."

Archive the dictionary in a repository providing for long-term and free accessibility, such as Zenodo. Archive the dictionary, the documentation (in ODD) and the stylesheets used for the post-processing and the publication.

Karlheinz Mörth

Charles Riondet

Lionel Tadjou

This scenario sets out the best practices for creating a born-digital dictionary, especially with the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). However, buiding a standardized lexicographical dataset is not only a data format problem, it is also an intellectual and technical process where one has to choose how to model their data, and with which tools operate in order to create an easy-to-use and sustainable resource.

Create a dictionary in TEI

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Workflow steps(5)

1 Build the model of the dictionary

2 Create a corpus of useful resources for the dictionary.

3 Setting up the editing environment

4 Setting up the publishing environment

5 Provide for long-term availability