Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31745/s.74.10
The Online Version of the Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic
Ana Mihaljević
; Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Mihaljević
orcid.org/0000-0002-7482-7663
; Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper presents the development process of an online version of the Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic. Compiling this dictionary is a long-term project of the Old Church Slavonic Institute in Zagreb. The project began in 1958, but the first fascicle was published in 1991. So far, 23 volumes have been published with entries from a to izgnilstvo. The dictionary is being compiled as a MS Word document. This paper presents the steps in the retrodigitalisation of the previously published fascicles and the problems involved in this process. A web portal for this dictionary is currently being developed, a process that is complicated due to the dictionary’s complex microstructure. The entries contain five languages (Croatian, Croatian Church Slavonic, English, Greek, and Latin) and four scripts (Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Latin, and Greek). After testing and analysing many pre-existing solutions and models for creating a reliable retrodigitalization model for this dictionary, the authors decided that the online version will be built using the WordPress content management system (CMS). By modifying WordPress into a custom dictionary writing system, previous entries will be imported into the database, and new entries will be created within the system itself. Glagolitic and Cyrillic fonts have been implemented in the system and can be used by editors through the user interface. A custom virtual keyboard was created to enable the user to type all Glagolitic characters and thus make searching easier. Dictionary entries are interlinked by hyperlink. The technical aspects of developing an online dictionary are also analysed and problems and plans for future development are outlined.
Keywords
Croatian Church Slavonic; e-dictionary; web dictionary; retodigitalisation; Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic
Hrčak ID:
325733
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2024.
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