A Net-based Toolkit for Collaborative Editing and Publishing of Dictionaries.

This paper presents the first results of an ongoing research project at the University of Trier (Germany), which has been funded since March 2002 by the German Research Association (DFG). The aims of the project are: (1) to develop a lexicographical working environment for a particular dictionary project, the new Middle High German Dictionary; and (2) to customize this system for the requirements of other dictionary projects. In the first section of this paper the starting position is outlined and the goal of the project is introduced. The second section describes the technical concept and the realization of our system as a client-server architecture with a relational database in its center. In the third section we present the essential features of the system supporting all different steps of compiling dictionary entries up to the publishing in different media. Finally, we end the paper by giving a short conclusion and looking briefly at the prospects of our future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]