Project: Dictionaries

Name

DistributedDictionary

Why needed

Because AMI uses a large n umber of dictionaries which may be developed independently and globally. AMIDictionaries are now spread over many sites, different degrees of compliance, and different location types (in-jar resources, distributed $DICTIONARY, local files, web sites). It's fun and a mess, just as the 1994 web was!

Similar/previous work

• amidict org.contentmine.ami.tools.dictionary. Primary tools for creating, editing, translating, displaying, merging.

Proposed work

Definitions:

• define the syntax
• namespaces?

Tools

• amidict-based: create, display, search , translate (the last is mainly json<->xml)
• ami search supports distributed dictionaries but needs testing.

Developers

• Peter Murray-Rust
• ???

Testing

• Richard Light
• Emanuel Faria

Project page

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Current state

Main use is in-jar resources. The distributed syntax works in ami search but is probably out-of-date. The dictionaries are not all Wikidata-ified.

Priority Dictionaries

• country
• disease
• virus (vertebrate)
• drugs (Rajan)
• funders (PMR)