Neahttadigisánit

Neahttadigisánit (NDS) is a family of appr. 75 online reading dictionaries which use analysers to find lemma forms, and sends them to dictionary lookup. The dictionaries are grouped according to minority language, in 12 different dictionary pages

Linguistic documentation

General documentation

• TODO-list: A wishlist for new features to be added
• Issue-tracker: [github.com/giellaekno/neahttadigisanit/issues)(https://github.com/giellatekno/neahttadigisanit/issues)
• Designing language resources for NDS
• Testing dict-FSTs

Maintenance (mostly UiT-specific)

• Updating linguistic options
• Updating Localisations
• Updating dictionaries and fsts on the server (UiT relevant)
• Logging options and extraction

Dictionary editors

NDS dictionaries are written in xml. They may be edited:

• with an xml editor using css style sheet (graphical mode)
  • The XMLMind dictionary editor
  • Setup of the XMLMind editor
  • XMLMind in a web browser (not yet set up)
• with an exml editor without style sheets (the editor shows the dictionary as an xml tree)
  • Oxygen and almost all other xml editors
• text editors with syntax check
  • emacs and other editors for programmers
• text editors without syntax check, but with syntax coloring
  • subethaedit and other general editors

Technical documentation

• Source repository (on github) (Each subfolder contains a README.md file describing its content)
• Management script (‘nds’) (For updating, restarting, etc)
• Configuration (What goes into a configuration file)
• Troubleshooting (Common things that may go wrong)
• API (The limited web API exposed by NDS)
• Updating language-specific options
• Flask: The software used for NDS
• How to start new language pairs
• Including Neahttadigisánit as an option in a website

Meetings

• 2024: 27.1.
• 2016: 20.9.
• 2013: 4.2.

Obsolete documentation

• Detailed explanation of the configuration files A bulletpoint on installation, and virtual envs. Now covered in the README file in the repository.
• Developing in NDS and virtualenv
• Overview over click-in-text functionality status