Re: JMdict database moves

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@*********>]

On 15 April 2010 17:23, Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I want to fill people in on where we are with moving
> to an online database for JMdict/EDICT, etc.
>
> We are getting close to the start of a period where I'll
> be doing parallel updates of my system and Stuart's
> database and comparing the resulting dictionary files
> to see if there are any problems.

All going well, the parallel running starts tomorrow. I'll
probably do it for a week or so

> Once we're happy with the parallel running,
> I plan to turn off my (manual) updates at
> Monash and just update via the database,
> stripping the data out daily to generate the
> dictionaries.

On of the things I need to clean up first are the
"9000nnn" entries, i.e. the ones with non-JIS208
kanji. I'll post about this later.

> .... And once that's stable the big
> final step will be to direct the new/amend
> forms in WWWJDIC to go straight to the
> database, with users doing their own thing
> there.

That's going to be the big and scary step.

Jim

-- 
Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Clayton School of IT, Monash University
Treasurer: Hawthorn Rowing Club, Japanese Studies Centre
Graduate student: Language Technology Group, University of Melbourne