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===== General =====

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===== Lexeme Article Citations =====

Articles from print publications should follow standard scholarly formats. For lexeme entries available from this site, whether as PDFs or online articles, we recommend using the following citation format:

> J.K. Aitken, "<span hebrew>שְׁבִיל</span>". //Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database//, online edition. [Accessed 01 September 2014] <http://www.sahd.div.ed.ac.uk/lexeme:mgv_shebil_aitken-j_cam_1999>.

===== Commenting =====

There is a facility for discussion of lexeme entries, but this is available only to project members. If you wish to contribute a comment on any of the lexemes treated in the Database, please use the [[info:contact|Contact form]]. All such submissions should be fully identified with "real" names, and are subject to moderation.

===== Site Search =====

Dokuwiki includes a built-in search function, but it **only searches content saved in the wiki-system itself**. Material held off-site, and the PDFs of the Project Minutes and lexemes are **not** searchable via this facility. At the moment, most of the lexeme articles are available only in PDFs when online (otherwise, in [[info:lexeme_index|print]] [[info:publications|publications]]), but the amount of //searchable// content will be increasing in future.

The search field is in the upper-right corner of the browser window, with the mangifying-glass icon. Wrap search terms in Hebrew in quotation marks, so ''%%"בְּרָכָה"%%'' rather than ''%%בְּרָכָה%%''. {{:info:search.png |}} Use the asterisk character, ''*'', as a "wildcard" for fuzzy searches.

===== File-naming conventions =====

Filenames used for lexeme entries, whether online or PDF, appear in this form:

  mgv-shebil-aitken_j-cam-1999

The various elements are:

  * ''mgv'' = three letter code from the Lexical Index (see below);
  * ''shebil'' = simple transliteration of lexeme;
  * ''aitken-j'' = author identifier, surname-initial;
  * ''cam'' = three letter code for [[info:project#participating_centres|centre]] where the entry was produced;
  * ''1999'' = the year of initial publication;
  * ''_'' = space.

===== LexicalIndex =====

The unique three letter code prefixed to the filename is keyed to BDB, and comes from the [[https://github.com/openscriptures/HebrewLexicon|Hebrew Lexicon XML files]] that are part of the [[http://openscriptures.github.io/morphhb/|OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible project]].

The LexicalIndex.xml file is "meeting place of BDB, Strong and the TWOT numbers", and its node IDs for each entry provide a simple means for a "natural" alpha-sort on the lexeme files in our database. We have provided a [[http://www.sahd.div.ed.ac.uk/lexidx/search.html|basic search tool]] for LexicalIndex.xml which can be used to get simple information about a given lexeme, including its unique three letter code.

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