Wiktionary
- Posted by
- Kevin Curry
- Date
- November 14, 2009
The government is awash with acronyms. New acronyms are created daily. Acronyms create a barrier to understanding if they cannot be easily resolved, where easy = universal and universal = URL. There are many online dictionaries with entries that are found in Web searches. However, these return results only in highly formatted, not-well-formed HTML that is not always accessible through simple URLs. Furthermore, these dictionaries provide no way for the community to create and share new entries as they are needed. A simple solution to this is: + Use the cloud to store terms and definitions + Use Web services to return definitions through URLs as XML, JSON, and XHTML + Provide a simple form that lets registered users add and edit terms We have created a proof of concept here using XAMPP and AWS: http://dev.os.bridgeborn.com/wiktionary/
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