A Fast and Flexible Webinterface for Dialect Research in the Low Countries

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This paper describes the development of webportals with search applications built in order to make the data from the 33 volumes of the Dictionary of the Brabantic dialects (1967-2005) and the 39 volumes of the Dictionary of the Limburgian dialects (1983-2008) accessible and retrievable for both the research community and the general audience. Part of the data was available in a digital format, a larger part only in print. The printed data was semi-automatically converted from paper to structured text (database). This process allowed for streamlining information, applying (semi-)automatic data checks and manually correcting the input. Next, the resulting database was the backbone of a webportal for faceted search requests on the full collection, including filtering and splitting the results on metadata. The design and implementation of the webportals, called e-WBD and e-WLD, are being defined in more detail. The URLs of the portals are: http://e-wbd.nl/ and http://www.e-wld.nl/.

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