Re: [edict-jmdict] Source of Dutch glosses in JMdict?

[Jeroen Hoek <mail@*************>]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:12 +0200, Jeroen Hoek wrote:
> On the Dutch side of things, I hope one day Leiden University picks up
> the Dutch-Japanese (蘭和) dictionary again:
>   http://www.jnwb.nl
> Which is frozen due to budget cuts as I've mentioned. :(

Actually, I've just spend the last hour catching up on what this project
set out to do (instead of preparing for Korean class as I should be
doing). :)

It seems that the this project may bear fruit after all. Initially this
project was a joined effort between the two Dutch-language universities
with a Japanese department until 2004. The Dutch Universiteit Leiden and
the Belgian Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The latter are now (since
late 2006 I think) following the model of WaDoku and are using a wiki
structure to organise the dictionary with the aid of students.

http://akira.arts.kuleuven.be/waranwiki/index.php/Hoofdpagina

In fact, Reading Tutor already uses this as a source:

http://language.tiu.ac.jp/

And to my surprise the Belgian academic who is heading the WaRan
dictionary is coming to Leiden on the 30th as there seems to a
conference on "Open Source principes en methodes in Academia" here.
(Which I also did not know, yet is very relevant to my studies.. I feel
quite naive, uninformed and slightly frustrated at this point!)

I will try to find out some more about the licence and formats used by
WaRan. I believe that this may be an excellent addition for JMdict, and
a lot better than the few Dutch glosses present now. :)

Kind regards,

Jeroen Hoek