Resumen de Dynamic access to a static dictionary: a lexicographical "cathedral" lives to see the twenty-first-century - the "Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français"
How to transform a dictionary of the Old French language - an ongoing composition for over 40 years - with a complex and dense article structure? The dictionary's structure is characterised by rules for condensing information, explicitly by the use of conventional indicators and implicitly by the use of rules relying on the user's knowledge of the article structure. The target format was a dictionary which is printed and published online including versatile search functions which allow access both to explicit and implicit information. The transformation process clearly showed the importance of a well directed cooperation between lexicography and computer science controlled by the lexicographers.
