Dictionary network
Dictionary network is a digital network of dictionaries in several languages. It includes dictionaries mainly of the German language, including Old and Middle High German and various dialects, but also Luxembourgish and Middle Latin .
The carrier is the competence center for electronic cataloging and publication processes in the humanities of the University of Trier , a research and service facility of Faculty II (language, literature and media studies). The project started in 1998. Partners of the association are academies ( Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , Academy of Sciences and Literature ), Trier University Library, the university Luxembourg , the research association TextGrid , the publishers S. Hirzel , Kohlhammer , Zweiausendeins and the full-text library Zeno.org .
The use of the dictionary network is described on the website of the competence center as follows:
“Like their printed counterparts, digital reference works are related to one another in a variety of ways and are thus implicitly“ networked ”in a certain way; However, due to the differences in the layout, arrangement and structure of the individual works, comprehensive, integrated research is not easily possible even in the digital medium. Reference works, which are divided into standardized and thus comparable information units through content-structural markup and enriched with metadata, make the implicit networking explicit. As a result, a new quality of information acquisition can be achieved and the gap between the cumbersome usability and limited availability of the book versions on the one hand and the lack of systematics and arbitrariness of the information in conventional Internet search engines on the other hand can be closed ...
The dictionary network makes it possible to clarify the meaning of unknown terms from texts of the past with a single query in several electronic dictionaries. It is therefore also an aid in palaeography if the texts to be transcribed contain unknown words. For example, the search word attrapieren is explained in the dictionary of German-Lorraine dialects , in the Palatinate , in the Rhenish and in the South Hessian dictionary.