A Pilot Historical Thesaurus of Scots

该项目将创建一个试点的苏格兰历史辞典(HTS)，涵盖从最早的记录到现在的苏格兰语言。这将是在现有的数字资源--《苏格兰语言在线词典》(DSL)的基础上创建的一种新资源，该词典是由AHRB于2001--2004年资助开发的。HTS将是第一个苏格兰人的历史辞典，并将从一开始就被规划为数字资源。这一试点项目将作为未来对HTS进行更大规模竞标的概念验证，并将解决以下问题：如何查询和重组当前的DSL数据，以创建HTS的基础；HTS中每个条目的基本组件是什么，最佳标记方案是什么；HTS将需要什么类型的搜索设施；其他复杂的语言数据集，如英语历史同义词库，如何帮助编制HTS，以及如何将这些数据链接到其最终输出；HTS试点网站如何结合多媒体和用户生成的内容，以创建动态和创新的资源？试点项目计划从2014年1月开始，为期15个月。它将重点放在苏格兰词汇丰富的选定主题领域--如体育和比赛、食品和天气--以便编制计划中的词库的工作子集，该词库将在项目结束时在线提供。

This project will create a pilot Historical Thesaurus of Scots (HTS), covering the Scots language from the earliest records to the present day. This will be a new resource created out of an existing digital resource, the online Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL), which was developed with AHRB funding in 2001-4. The HTS will be the first historical thesaurus of Scots and will be planned as a digital resource from the outset. This pilot project will act as proof of concept for a future larger bid for the HTS and will address the following questions: how can the current DSL data be queried and restructured to create a basis for the HTS; what are the essential components for each entry in the HTS and what is the optimal markup scheme; what type of search facilities will the HTS require; how can other complex linguistic datasets, such as the Historical Thesaurus of English, assist the compilation of the HTS and how may these be linked into its eventual output; how can the pilot HTS website incorporate multimedia and user-generated content to create a dynamic and innovative resource? The pilot project is planned to last fifteen months, starting in January 2014. It will focus on selected subject domains which are rich in Scots vocabulary-such as sports and games, food, and weather-in order to produce a working subset of the planned thesaurus which will be made available online by the end of the project.