FOSS Dictionaries
Credit: https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/wiki
Formats
- Structure: indexed Headwords linked to a plaintext body
- Used by: [Dict Clients](Dict Clients) and [Dict Servers](Dict Servers), GoldenDict, GNOME Dictionary
- Structure: see http://www.stardict.org/StarDictFileFormat
- Supports HTML, XDXF and plain text
- Used by: StarDict, GoldenDict, GoldenDict by xiaoyifang, QStarDict, QDict (Android), SDCV (command-line)
- Also see this list.
- Structure: Slob (sorted list of blobs) is a read-only, compressed data store with dictionary-like interface to look up content by text keys
- Used by: Aard 2 and other clients
Source formats
- Used by: FreeDict
- Standardized format for linguistic exchange, see the pages of the TEI Group
- Aims at providing a common file format for dictionary exchange, similar to FreeDict’s approach to have a pivot format for dictionary distribution
- seems inactive
Android clients
- Multi format (DICT, Stardict and more)
- License: non-free (commercial)
- Custom format. Very simple files can be generated from CSVs. How to use more complex data is not documented. Dictionaries do not differentiate the the translation directions.
- Apache License 2.0
- Source code: https://github.com/rdoeffinger/Dictionary
- Custom format, some form of SQL backend, so table-based
- License: GPL 3
- Seems to be inactive (last update according to Google Play: January 15, 2014)
- Uses Stardict format
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source code: https://github.com/madmanteam/QDict
- General purpose dictionary for Wikipedia and Wiktionary pages and similar data sets.
- Uses the slob format
- License: GPL 3