Point and find: the intuitive user experience in accessing spatially structured dialect dictionaries

Authors

  • Eveline Wandl-Vogt Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Institute for Austrian Dialect and Name Lexicons Austria , Avstrijska akademija znanosti, Inštitut za avstrijsko narečje in imenske leksikone

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.3.2.35–53.2010

Keywords:

dialect lexicography, language mapping, user needs, topographic navigation

Abstract

This article adresses a long-term project of the "Austrian Academic Dialect Dictionary" the "Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich (WBÖ / Dictionary of Bavarian dialects in Austria)". The project Datenbank der bairischen Mundarten (DBÖ / Database of Bavarian dialects in Austria) commenced in 1993 and was aimed at the digitalisation of the archives. In 1998 a rationalisation concept was issued, which targeted the completion of the dictionary in 2020 as a (virtual) unit consisting of the printed dictionary and a complementary database.

The project Database of Bavarian dialects in Austria electronically mapped (dbo@ema) has demonstrated how the unification of online dictionaries and source material databases with visual, geo-referenced access applications and so called 'topographic navigation' can increase usability and lead to greater interdisciplinary insight.

Author Biography

  • Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Institute for Austrian Dialect and Name Lexicons Austria, Avstrijska akademija znanosti, Inštitut za avstrijsko narečje in imenske leksikone

    E-mail: Eveline.Wandl-Vogt@oeaw.ac.at

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14.10.2020

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2010)

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How to Cite

Wandl-Vogt, E. (2020). Point and find: the intuitive user experience in accessing spatially structured dialect dictionaries. Slavia Centralis, 3(2), 35–53. https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.3.2.35–53.2010