A uniform data model for joint publication of minor language dictionaries

This paper proposes a data model for dictionaries of small languages that can be applied to any language and that allows publication of many different dictionaries in the same general framework, with identical search options and linking of entries via comparison meanings. Dictionaries of small languages are of great interest to linguistic scholarship, but publishing such dictionaries in a way that that permits easy use by linguists and speakers requires electronic publication in database form and a relatively uniform data structure