rowlesmr/demonstration_dictionary

A repository for demonstrating the process of dictionary creation.

CIF Demonstration Dictionary

This repository is used to show the process of dictionary creation. The "Concept" directory contains the earliest drafts. Progress of dictionary creation can be followed by selecting the various commit tags.

The process

The dictionary topic is "A microsymposium", that is, a conference session that forms part of a larger conference. The initial list of concepts is fleshed out in initial_list.md, which is then converted into a graph, described in first_graph.dot and visualised in first_graph.svg. The various categories and data names are then listed out in a shorthand way (to save typing those long attribute names) in detailed.md before being converted to the dictionary microsymposium.dic using the shorthand-to-dictionary tool in Tools/abbrev_to_dic.jl. Note that not all categories in the graph have been carried across to the dictionary; that remains an exercise for the reader.