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Saeed Rasooli edited this page Apr 11, 2023 · 8 revisions

Overview Over File Formats

This page attempts to give an overview about dictionary formats and a brief summary on their application. It's not extensive, but might help you getting an overview about current formats and previously developed projects.

Formats for end users

  • Structure: indexed Headwords linked to a plaintext body
  • Used by: [Dict Clients](Dict Clients) and [Dict Servers](Dict Servers), GoldenDict, GNOME Dictionary
  • Structure: Slob (sorted list of blobs) is a read-only, compressed data store with dictionary-like interface to look up content by text keys
  • Used by: Aard 2

Interchange formats

  • Used by: FreeDict
  • Standardized format for linguistic exchange, see the pages of the TEI Group
  • Aims at providing a common file format for dictionary exchange, similar to FreeDict's approach to have a pivot format for dictionary distribution
  • seems inactive