INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT

July - December 1998

Contents:

The Interim Report for the period July - December 1998 will only summarize the most important actions, achievements and results of the international project during the first six months of its progress.

1. Organizational issues

June 1998

July

July - December

2. Technical progress

3. Promotional activities

Promotional activities cover a wide scale of actions carried out in a number of countries by particular collaborators and their institutions and by the Project Manager. They range from individual presentations to international conferences, and the presentation of the project on the Web. Only four of the most important will be listed below:

Promotional material and outlines of the Project were prepared and sent out on demand to cooperating working groups and their funding bodies.

4. Financial issues

The expenditures of the past period cover the following items related to the central preparation and processing of the dictionary (for details see Appendix 4):

5. Concluding recapitulation and evaluation

During the starting period of the project (July to December 1998) 11 national teams have formally signed the contract and further contracts for 3 languages are in the process of signing, thus uniting 33 and more individual authors in the preparation of a single dictionary. Further potential collaborators will be attracted if possible during the next phase. All the formal isues have been solved and technical standards set. Fund raising proved successful in some countries thus providing the basic conditions for their collaboration. The first results of the editorial work (comprising letters A - C, 1.371 items) had already been handed out by 6 teams who have started the second segment (letters D - L, 1.084 entries) already. File conversions have been successfully tested, with Cyrillic as well, and the upgrade of the demo user inteface has been designed.

One must agree with the overall evaluation that the project has started following to the planned schedule, so the results in the form of the edited electronic manuscript can be expected in summer 1999. It is not clear, however, if all of the participating parties will be able to keep to the proposed timetable. In the case of their delays the final editing will be postponed into the second half of the year.

In addition to the regular and planned activities concerning the preparation of the dictionary, much effort will be paid in 1999 to finding a suitable publisher and the financial means for the publication of the work.


Project Manager
Ljubljana, January 18, 1999

6. Appendices:

Appendix 1: Contracts - specimen
Appendix 2: List of cooperating institutions and authors
Appendix 2.a: Contracts sent out for signing and not returned yet
Appendix 2.b: List of languages we are seeking collaborators for
Appendix 3: Technical guidelines
Appendix 4: Detailed financial report

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