Once upon a time I started a Slovene-Dutch dictionary. It was the time of multimedia, when there was a real difference between Applications and the Web. The Web was minimal and slow, applications rich and fast.

So "Slovar" was born as paid application on cd-rom. Its main strength was the type-ahead - with just a few keystrokes you could find your word, plus the immedate surrounding words in the list. Overall it was built for retrieval speed.

While I could have updated the interface, the project has been laying dormant, awaiting better times.

I think this summer was a good time. During my holiday evenings in Slovenia I have resurrected my old database, migrated it to MySQL, and created a web interface with Foswiki, the open web platform.

My first goal was to make the dictionary accessible again, and free this time.
Next goals are to improve lookup speed and to introduce user interactivity. Although I haven't decided on a model yet, I think the German-English dictionary at http://dict.cc has achieved a way to let users create and verify entries.

Visit the dictionary at sloveens.org (Dutch)

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