Mondilex

The MONDILEX project Conceptual Modelling of Networking of Centres for

High-Quality Research in Slavic Lexicography and Their Digital Resources is a EU

project funded by the European Commission within the 7th FP in the field “Ca-

pacities – Research Infrastructures: Design studies for research infrastructures in

all sciences and technologies fields”.

The main objective of the MONDILEX1project was to design a conceptual

scheme of a research infrastructure supporting the networking of centres for high

quality research in Slavic lexicography. Research infrastructures in general function

as sets of strategic centres of excellence for research, education and training, whose

chief aim is facilitating scientific cooperation and public partnership as well as

strengthening the interaction between research and applications. As such, research

infrastructures greatly contribute to the development of the knowledge society.

The MONDILEX project was motivated by the need of a sustainable and scal-

able infrastructure for institutions involved in creating and supporting a network

of multilingual resources of Slavic languages (Dimitrova et al. 2010). Such an

infrastructure is necessary in view of the obvious mismatch between the impor-

tance of Slavic languages, spoken by a substantial part of Europe’s population, and

the insufficient number and inadequate quality of digital lexical resources for these

languages.

Other important objectives of the MONDILEX project were to study problems

in the development, management, and reuse of lexical resources in a multilingual

context. The increased the EU participation of countries whose national languages

belongs to the Slavic group, as well as intensified communication with non-EU

Slavic countries, brings up the issue of standardisation of digital bi- and multilingual

resources. This is needed to facilitate exchange and serve in education, business,

and research.