About edict_access_v05-003.mdb (2005/06/13) ------------------------------ This Microsoft Access database file contains information from EDICT version V05-003 dated June 10 2005, Copyright Electronic Dictionary Research & Development Group - 2005. This version of EDICT has been obtained from the file located at ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict.gz The data contained in this database is subject to all copyright and license information described in the original EDICT documentation. A HTML version of the EDICT documentation can be found at ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict_doc.html Version history 2005/06/13 - Latest EDICT version (V05-003 June 10 2005) ^^ From now on, the Access file is in Access 2000 format. If you have any trouble using it, please contact me. 2005/05/06 - Latest EDICT version (V05-002 May 1 2005) 2005/03/07 - Latest EDICT version (V05-001 March 6 2005) 2004/12/13 - Latest EDICT version (V04-003 December 10 2004) 2004/08/16 - Latest EDICT version (V04-002 August 14 2004) 2004/06/07 - Latest EDICT version (V04-001 June 7 2004) 2003/12/19 - Latest EDICT version (V03-005 December 18 2003) 2003/08/25 - Latest EDICT version (V03-004 August 19 2003) 2003/06/11 - Latest EDICT version (V03-003 June 10 2003) 2003/05/06 - Latest EDICT version (V03-002 May 3 2003) 2003/02/27 - Latest EDICT version (V03-001 February 4 2003) 2002/05/09 - Latest EDICT version (V02-001 April 25 2002) 2002/02/28 - First release This database file contains all the information from EDICT. The data from EDICT was first imported into a SQL Server 2000 database using ASP (Active Server Pages) scripts running on IIS on Windows 2000 Server. Extreme care was taken for the data to be imported without any losses or mistakes. However, if there were to be any differences between the original EDICT file and this database, please let me know. Corrections to the EDICT entries should be directed to Mr. Breen. A previous Microsoft Access version of EDICT, by Scott Barlow, was available at http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict_access97.zip However that version didn't contain all data from the latest version of EDICT, since then over 44500 new entries have been added. Also some English entries used to be cut at 255 characters length because of the data field's length limitation. This database contains all 112891 entries from EDICT version V05-003. The "english" field's type was changed to Memo which allows free-length text. The database structure is slightly different from the one edict_access97.mdb had, although field names were left same, all data is now contained in one table with the following characteristics. edict -- The only table containing all data from EDICT version V05-003 id (integer) Unique ID representing the line number in the EDICT file, excluding the first line of EDICT (version info). Numbering starts at 1 up to 112891. kanji (text (60)) Japanese entry with kanji, blank if no kana entry was provided (as it was in edict_access97.mdb). hk (text (60)) Japanese entry in kana. This is the data found between brackets ([..]) in the EDICT entry, if none this is the text from the beginning of the line up before the first space followed by a slash (beginning of English definition). english (memo) English definition imported as is excluding leading and trailing slashes, this way splitting on "/" will give you an array of the found terms (including the lexicographical codes on some entries). Hoping that this can help some developers to use the precious contents of EDICT in their non-commercial Windows applications or Web projects. Best regards, Patrick Benny Computer programmer learning Japanese nihongo#AT#chipple#DOT#net 2002/02/28 (Updated 2005/06/13) (This text file and database file have been authored by Patrick Benny however all data contained in the database is subject to all copyright and license information described in the original EDICT documentation. A HTML version of the EDICT documentation can be found at http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict_doc.html)