What is PanLex?
Generally ā¦
PanLex is an effort to discover, organize, and make publicly availableĀ all documented translations among all words and phrases of all varieties of all languages in the world. More details are at theĀ main PanLex website.
Technically ā¦
PanLex is a collection of uniformly structured panlingual lexical translation data being stored in an open-source database and made publicly accessible through user and program interfaces and retrievableĀ files.
What is on this site?
This PanLex development website contains documentation for PanLex developers: the staff, interns, and volunteers ofĀ the PanLex project and other developers who use PanLex data and interfaces.
Development
This site documents severalĀ aspects of PanLex development:
- Acquisition: how to find and obtainĀ dataĀ for the project.
- Assimilation: how to select, interpret, analyze, and standardizeĀ data and importĀ them into the database.
- Data and interfaces: how to access PanLex data, and giveĀ usersĀ and programs access to PanLexĀ data.
- Research: how to improve the quality, power, and value of the data in the database.
- Infrastructure: how to improve the performance and reliability of the database, related services, and the server that hosts them.
There is also general information at this site for current and prospective PanLex developers.
- Reference: documentation relevant to multipleĀ aspects, including the data model, database design, resource archive, and resource organization.
- Recruitment: opportunities for participation in PanLex as an intern orĀ volunteer.
