Lexico

For who?⚓

Lexico is meant for any person or organization in need of managing and publishing accessible multimedia lexicons, in an educational or documentary context.

For what?⚓

Lexico enables one to create lexicons, glossaries, thesaurus, vocabularies:

  • Web, with 3 ways to access the terms: alphabetical order, by category, through the search engine,

  • Multimedia: enriched with images, sounds, videos,...

  • Mono or bilingual (French / English),

  • Accessible.

Lexico also offers a PDF publication of the lexicon.

What interests?⚓

  • Define a set of terms, enriched by descriptive audio-visual resources, linked together, following a writing guide.

  • Publish several lexicons from a same base of terms, according to various selection criteria.

  • Enable the translation of terms and make the distribution in several languages easier.

  • Obtain accessible web sites.

  • Use the XML norm for the storage of contents and exchanges (with translators, for instance).

  • Follow the progress of the lexicon terms production by using a life cycle, in a client/server environment.

How does it work?⚓

  • First you need to create an item Term where you can input:

    • The grammatical nature of the term, with equivalent terms if need be,

    • A definition, with its origin and links to other items in relation with the defined term,

    • The phonetic form of the term, possibly enriched with a sound file of its pronunciation,

    • Tags, to create search criteria.

  • You can add multimedia or desktop resources (image, video, audio, pdf, zip,...) with a simple drag and drop.

  • You can link terms between them and specify synonymy relations, associations, etc, in order to enable browsing between terms.

  • The writing guide enables you to input the required alternatives to ensure the digital accessibility.

  • The lexicon usually displays the terms classified in alphabetical order. No need to link the terms to a scenario item, in fact, the author defines a request to select the terms to publish.

ExempleLexicon typical structure:⚓

  • Website of the lexicon: contents root

    • Setup of the lexicon: configuration of the request used to select the terms to publish

      • Terms: detailed and illustrated definition of a word from the lexicon

        • Tags: index entries (search criteria / categories)

        • Sources: definition origin(s)

        • Multimedia resources (images, animations (videos, audio), documents...)

        • Links: to freely specify a relation between 2 terms.

Examples⚓

3 lexicons created with Lexico.

Lexico SciencesHealthWords and sounds