What is CollaLex Live?
CollaLex Live integrates the lexicon in its current form into a page on the project’s own website. It basically is the published dictionary, albeit not yet necessarily finished, or the dictionary in a formatted form.
This means that the public can view the dictionary as it is being edited. Integration in the LDP’s own website allows for the dictionary’s “raw data” to be publicly viewable during the entire process. There are many advantages to publicly displaying the raw data in this manner:
- The public can make suggestions or comments, helping the LDP to identify errors or fill in empty fields.
- The public can observe the process along the way, instead of having to wait patiently for the dictionary to be finished and published.
- Funding sources can see the progress being made.
To avoid the public thinking that any particular dictionary entry is correct, when it may not yet be, there is always a status indicator that shows whether an entry is finalized or not.
It is important to note that the entries displayed on CollaLex Live are not separate entries from the database of words being edited in CollaLex Dashboard. It is the same database, the same entries at the same stage of development.
This is because CollaLex Live pulls from the same database of word entries being compiled and edited on CollaLex Dashboard. So, every time a user makes an edit in CollaLex Dashboard, it immediately shows up on the project's website.
