Import Centre

Dictionary Sources

The dictionaries in FreeDict have different sources:

0. All sources of releases are at https://freedict.org/downloads.
1. Hand-written dictionaries, found in the repository at https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries.
2. Automatically imported dictionaries. Their sources are at https://download.freedict.org/generated. Their importers are listed on this page below.

Importers

In most cases, dictionaries from external sources are encoded in their own format, requiring a specialised importer. Others use common formats. FreeDict's advantage is the common pivot format (TEI XML) from which we can export to any dictionary format, given we support the conversion from TEI.

Please document importers here. Include the used language, usage hints, the location in the Git repository and other instructions. All importers are located in tools repository. Please create a separate wiki site, with an entry from here pointing to it, if your explanations are too long.

• dict2tei.py - conversion of an already formatted dictd database into TEI format

• ding2tei: Haskell programm to import the DING eng-deu / deu-eng dictionary

• wikdict/import_wikdict.py: import preformatted TEI dictionaries from the WikDict project.