enword

Enword is a fictional cloud-based platform designed for managing, annotating, and sharing lexical data. It is intended for linguists, lexicographers, language educators, and publishers. The core idea is to provide a centralized workspace where users can create dictionaries, compile word lists, annotate meanings, and link related terms across languages. The project emphasizes interoperability, collaboration, and extensible data models.

The platform features a modular data model in which entries contain senses, etymologies, usage examples, morphological information, synonyms, antonyms, and cross-references. It supports multilingual definitions and locale-aware rendering, with tools for annotation, tagging, and semantic linking. Collaboration is built in, offering real-time editing, comments, version history, and role-based access control. Import and export options cover JSON, XML, TEI, and CSV, facilitating integration with other lexical resources and publishing pipelines.

Architecture and standards emphasize openness. Enword offers a RESTful and, where applicable, GraphQL API, along with connectors to external corpora and language tools. It supports open lexical data standards such as TEI for textual encoding and Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) concepts for data modeling. The system prioritizes data portability and allows users to publish reference dictionaries or private glossaries with customizable licenses and access settings.

History and scope are fictional, but the concept is aligned with ongoing efforts in digital lexicography to centralize lexical data workflows. Enword serves as a case study in how collaboration, standardized data, and flexible export options can streamline dictionary development, language teaching materials, and lexical research. See also: Lexicography, Dictionary, Lexical database, TEI, LMF.