Ottoman Historical Dictionary Developed by: Hong Lau Anna Stolar Khanhvy Doan

Overview  Project Problems  Work-flow diagram  Systems comparison  Conceptual Model of “Word Look-up”  Mock-up Interface  Plan for next step

Project Problems  Multi-language dictionary: Ottoman, Modern Turkish and English  There are no online Ottoman dictionaries  Three-way communication: Local clients (Prof. Andrews and Prof. Waters), Turkish expert (Prof. Tezcan)  Brief history of Ottoman language  Goal for this project: 1. Build an online Ottoman-Turkish-English three-way dictionary that is accessible by the public 2. Word entry can be entered under supervision of Prof. Tezcan. 3. On going process that will continue by others after this project finished.

Systems Comparison  ms.htm ms.htm

Mock-up Interface  mepage.html mepage.html

Our plan for next steps  Implementation stage: Database model – ER diagram Look for available open source code Study PHP and MySQL Create a small database for testing  Evaluation stage: Prof. Tezcan will verify the work How fast can one search for a word?

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