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Developer(s)
  
Dmitry N. Shilnikov

Available in
  
Multilingual (3)

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Glossword

Initial release
  
January 31, 2002 (2002-01-31)

Stable release
  
1.9.3 / 6 April 2010; 6 years ago (2010-04-06)

Written in
  
PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript

Glossword is an open source tool written in PHP intended to create and publish an online multilingual dictionary, glossary, or reference.

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History

Glossword was started by Dmitry N. Shilnikov as simple web-based dictionary management system for his own needs when he has studied in Moscow University for the Humanities in 2001.

Several times the development of the software has been closed and reopened again because of several reasons, including the lack of time.

Source code hosting history:

  • 2010: September - Registered at GitHub.
  • 2007: August - Registered at Google Code.
  • 2002: January - Registered at SourceForge.net

    • Features

    Features provided by the program include:

    1. Web interface;
    2. Import data from TSV, CSV, XML, Plain text, Glossword XML;
    3. Export data to various formats: CSV, TSV, XML, Glossword XML;
    4. Indexing and searching through millions of definitions;
    5. Automatically generated alphabetical index for dictionary;
    6. Multilevel cache engine improves productivity for an HTML-output;
    7. UTF-8 encoding. Multiple languages can be used in a one dictionary at the same time;

    Versions

    There are two different versions of Glossword:

  • 1.9.x - component for a CMS.
  • 1.8.x and below - stand-alone web-application.

    • References

    Glossword Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA