A file_descriptor object is a specialized container for the the information that allows finding the sort of files computers use to store multimedia content. It can contain references to basically anything, be it an audio file, a video, a picture etc.

A textual_content object is a specialized container for text. It can contain text up to any length, so that when building a dictionary you can actually store the whole bible as an expression, and write something like 'collections of sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity'.

It's just two weeks ago that I started to merge the dictionary data for Ambaradan in our loader application: this is needed to make sure data is in the right shape and we won't loose any.

Well, this morning I told Outi that Joola, one of the languages she cares about, was uploaded and she wrote she'll never forget this day: the last day of the Football World Championship and Joola online.

The other day I thought, well, as soon as I finished cleaning my data I should contact Werner again, I had been in touch with by-email and phone since 2005 when he gave me the permission to publish any of his data under GFDL license and part of it was also published on the Italian and the Low Saxon wiktionary.

Some of you might already know that we have a "translation stop" since we are now preparing the data for upload in Ambaradan. The first step was to clean double entries and similar stuff from the spreadsheet, get some more proofreading done etc. Nilli helped a lot with the double entries :-)

Some "history":

In Randa at the KDE Multimedia + Education sprint 2010 we presented the alpha version 0.6.0 of Ambaradan and extracted the actually included terminology from the Agrovoc Thesaurus by FAO to get a Parley vocabulary trainer file. Even if this was only a first test, now the information is around and people will want to know more.

Right now Ambaradan can be only used to search vocabulary. In the coming weeks and months more and more data will be availabe and it will become possible to edit data directly online.