Subject: Lexicography and encyclopaedica
Course: Croatian dictionary heritage
ECTS credits: 3
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester
Status: obligatory for DHI study, elective for all other studies
Method of teaching: 1 lecture hour and 1 hour of seminar every week
Prerequisites: none
Assessment: written report

Course description:
The course describes the Croatian dictionary heritage in machine readable form. It encompasses the bibliography of Croatian dictionary heritage since the beginning of 1918 as well as selected dictionaries from the later period. Description of the dictionary structure and the design principles are also explained. The course gives overview of the general, encyclopaedic and special monolingual, bilingual and multilingual dictionaries. Computer text database comprising the most prominent old Croatian bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, their structure and design principles are presented as well. Furthermore, the principles of digitalization, input, transcription and translation of the processed dictionary material to contemporary Croatian language are given. Also, the possibilities of presentation in multilingual www environment will be explored.

Course objectives:
The aim of the course is to introduce students with the entire Croatian dictionary heritage and with the principles of the modelling of the computer text database. They also need to be able to do the practical work in the field.

Quality check and success of the course: Quality check and success of the course will be done by combining internal and external evaluation. Internal evaluation will be done by teachers and students using survey method at the end of semester. The external evaluation will be done by colleagues attending the course, by monitoring and assessment of the course.

Reading list:
1. Bibliografska i rječnička baza znanstveno-istraživačkog projekta "Hrvatska rječnička baština i prikaz rječničkoga znanja", Odsjek za informacijske znanosti Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, 2004 (računalno dostupna)
2. Boras, Damir; Mikelić, Nives. Rječnik Fausta Vrančića - temelj hrvatske rječničke baštine (računalna obradba). U: Modeli znanja i obrada prirodnoga jezika, Zavod za informacijske studije, Zagreb, 2003, str. 237-272.
3. Leksikografija. U: Enciklopedija Jugoslavije, Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb 1964.

Additional reading list:
1. Franolić, Branko, A bibliography of Croatian dictionaries, Pariz, Nouvelles Editions Latines, 1985
2. Jakobović, Zvonimir: Mjeriteljski pojmovi u najstarijim hrvatskim rječ¬nicima, magistarski rad, Zagreb, 2002. (mentor prof. dr. sc. Damir Boras), Filozofski fakultet sveučilišta u Zagrebu (obrana: 3. 10. 2002)., str 88, lit 41, dodatak