This paper describes the development of webportals with search applications built in order to make the data from the 33 volumes of the Dictionary of the Brabantic dialects (1967-2005) and the 39 volumes of the Dictionary of the Limburgian dialects (1983-2008) accessible and retrievable for both the research community and the general audience. Part of the data was available in a digital format, a larger part only in print. The printed data was semi-automatically converted from paper to structured text (database). This process allowed for streamlining information, applying (semi-)automatic data checks and manually correcting the input. Next, the resulting database was the backbone of a webportal for faceted search requests on the full collection, including filtering and splitting the results on metadata. The design and implementation of the webportals, called e-WBD and e-WLD, are being defined in more detail. The URLs of the portals are: http://e-wbd.nl/ and http://www.e-wld.nl/.
@InProceedings{VAN HOUT18.220, author = {Roeland Van Hout and Nicoline Van der Sijs and Erwin Komen and Henk Van den Heuvel}, title = "{A Fast and Flexible Webinterface for Dialect Research in the Low Countries}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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