Creating a Serialization of LMF: The Experience of the RELISH Project
Menzo Windhouwer, Justin Petro, Irina A. Nevskaya, Sebastian Drude, Helen Aristar‐Dry, Jost Gippert · 2013
The Rendering Endangered Lexicons Interoperable through Standards Harmonization (RELISH) Interchange Format is created in order to establish interoperability between two digital lexicon formats: LL-LIFT and the lexical markup framework (LMF). One-to-one mapping of elements is implemented wherever possible; however, certain elements and concepts are difficult to map, and the structure of RELISH is greatly affected by some of these changes. The inclusion of TEI-based Feature Structures is one design feature that profoundly affects the implementation of the rest of the schema, as well as the mappings to deal with relations and examples. The next step for the RELISH project is to develop, write and test XSLT stylesheets, which convert a lexicon encoded in LL-LIFT or the LMF to and from the RELISH format. This chapter considers successful conversion of these lexica and round tripping of their lexical data to be a proof of the concept of the RELISH harmonization project.