This repo is under construction and could change drastically in the coming months with breaking changes.
MTD is the second of two open-source tools that allow language communities and developers to quickly and inexpensively make their dictionary data digitally accessible. MTD-UI is a tool that visualizes dictionary data that is prepared with MTD.
Please visit the website or docs for more information.
This is a basic Ionic app for displaying Mother Tongues Dictionaries data. Other frontends are in development.
Note - Just because you can make an online dictionary does not mean you should. Before making a dictionary, you must have clear consent from the language community in order to publish a dictionary. For some background on why this is important, please read sections 1 and 2.1 here
In order to use MTD-UI you must have a generated language configuration file and generated dictionary data from MTD.
Then, either fork or clone this repo and put those files in either the www/assets/js/ folder right away or in src/assets/js/ in order to build the app from source.
PRs accepted. If you would like to create more MTD-UIs those are also accepted.
MTD-UI has had significant help from a huge number of people including but not limited to Patrick Littell, Mark Turin, & Lisa Matthewson.
As well as institutional support from the First Peoples' Cultural Council and SSHRC Insight Grant 435-2016-1694, ‘Enhancing Lexical Resources for BC First Nations Languages’.