[sword-devel] new project proposal

Wed Jan 4 02:25:31 MST 2006

 Thank you Troy!

 One purpose of joining the Sword Project is also that there are many users.
And a good vocabulary can be built only with many users and much time.
 We currently have a vocabulary with around 60.000 terms, but they are
modern Hebrew. We need hard work to target it to biblical Hebrew, and later
Aramaic. Some terms also need some review, and with database conversions
there are some noise characters we have to clean.

 We uploaded a web demo for the dictionary,
http://biblic.sourceforge.net/biblic/main.php
 There are some problems with sessions at Sourceforge, and the admin
interface, which requires login, can be scarcely used. I hope we can fix
this soon.

 If somebody is interested in the project, we need some help to distribute
tasks. One person is dealing with wxHTML (wxWidgets) extensions in C++, so
that each word in the editor will point to an in-memory database with all
the possible translations.
 I am personally at the conclusion of the study of the Hebrew grammar, and I
will extend the existing core engine to include verbs, conjugations, etc.,
which is in Perl, and two other programmers will aid.
 We would like to find somebody who can take care of the HTML/PHP pages of
the project, so that we can stay focused on the core engine.
 When there will be something usable, we would like to have a space in the
Sword Project. So people will be able to contribute words, test it, etc.

 Kindest regards,

 Fabrizio Lanza

2006/1/2, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>:
>
> Fabrizio,
>         Thank you for considering working together in your effort for our
> Lord.
>   I, personally, have had a desire to build a translation software suite
> to facilitate a distributed Bible translation project.  We have
> immediate plans for a 'SWORD Community Editor (SCE)'-- a web-based tool
> to allow uploads of modules and community tagging, footnoting, etc.  My
> hope is that this will be a good breeding ground for tool which will
> facilitate the former.
>
>         I'm hopeful to hear your ideas and am excited to work together
> with
> you.  Please feel free to use sword-devel to communicate with our
> community here, and if interest and traffic peak, we'd be happy to
> create a separate mailing list to meet the need.  If there are any
> services we might provide, please also let us know.  I hope you will
> find that the true valuable advantage of CrossWire is a _community_ of
> sincere engineers who desire to use their talent together for our Lord.
>   The technical services are offer are a very distant second.
>
>         Looking forward to working together,
>                 -Troy A. Griffitts
>
>
> Fabrizio Lanza wrote:
> >  Hi Martin,
> >
> >     your project sounds really exciting. I am not the boss of crosswire,
> >     but
> >     currently I don't see why your project should not be acceptable. Why
> >     do you
> >     want to collaborate with crosswire? Do you want to base your
> software on
> >     Sword?
> >
> >
> > we will use some bibles of the Sword project, and our project is
> > targeted primarily to the biblic language. I think it could be a good
> > enhancement to the Sword project, since it will supply additional study
> > tools.
> > Imagine you can open a chapter of the bible in Hebrew, and see word by
> > word every possible meaning and translation. You could catch all the
> > possible nuances, and it is known that many things in the bible can be
> > interpreted in different ways.
> >
> >  Kindest regards,
> >
> >  Fabrizio Lanza - ULC-ITALIA
> >
> >     Troy would have to speak the final word, and he is the one who can
> >     give you a
> >     SVN repository / webspace etc.
> >
> >     Martin
> >
> >     P.S. We use mysql a lot at work, for high-load applications, and it
> >     works just
> >     great.
> >
> >     Am Mittwoch, 28. Dezember 2005 10:27 schrieb Fabrizio Lanza:
> >      >  Hello,
> >      > I'm starting a new project at sourceforge.net
> >     <http://sourceforge.net>, titled "Biblic Translation
> >      > Platform". We will be 4 developers. I would like to know if we
> >     could make
> >      > it part of the crosswire project.
> >      >
> >      > Some details about the Biblic Translation Platform (codename
> >     "biblic").
> >      > Platform: OS indipendent
> >      > Programming langs: Perl, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP
> >      > User interface: wxWidgets, web
> >      > Database, MySQL, ODBC
> >      > Description:
> >      > Biblic Translation Platform (BTP) is a translation software with
> many
> >      > utilities, which aid translating from Hebrew and Aramaic. It is
> >      > specifically targeted to biblic and jewish mystical sources.
> >      >
> >      > Tools will include: conversion utilities for Hebrew and Aramaic
> >     (addressing
> >      > charset issues, etc.), database backup tools for right-to-left
> >     languages,
> >      > web Hebrew-English-Hebrew dictionary (later Hebrew-Italian-Hebrew
> >     also),
> >      > web Aramaic-English-Aramaic dictionary (later
> Aramaic-English-Aramaic
> >      > also), realtime Hebrew translator (standalone and web), realtime
> >     Aramaic
> >      > translator (standalone and web), Hebrew bible translation memory
> >     for CAT
> >      > tools, misc tools for developers, etc.
> >      >
> >      > We believe that after the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon, this
> >     project will be
> >      > the next great innovation in the biblic field. It will provide
> >     invaluable
> >      > tools both to scholars and translators.
> >      > Putting online our dictionary (which currently is for modern
> >     Hebrew), users
> >      > will be able to enhance it, and slowly train it with biblic
> >     Hebrew.  More
> >      > people will use it, and more the realtime translator will become
> >     effective.
> >      >
> >      >  Kindest regards,
> >      >
> >      >  Fabrizio Lanza - ULC-ITALIA
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