The Caver's Multi-Lingual Dictionary

An International joint effort of the Caver's Dictionary
Working Group of the UIS Informatics Commission.

23-Aug-2000 Edition 6

This Edition: This Edition sees our eigth language - Italian - generously contributed by Graziano FERRARI. There has also been an extensive general tidy up of terms. As usual, your further improvements are very welcome! Just email the Chairman.
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Introduction

This is the UIS on-line multi-lingual dictionary of caving and speleological terms. It is a living dictionary that is constantly being added to and tuned as an International joint effort among cavers. Everyone is invited to participate - this could range from just correcting a mis-spelling to contributing a whole new language.

To get the ball rolling with a solid starting point, the Chairman's existing hardcopy publication, The Caver's Living Dictionary ( Kósa 1995/6), was updated and used for the initial web pages. To make it easier to maintain, all the words have been stored in a database which is used to automatically generate the updated web pages.

Of course, many other workers have contributed significantly in this field - see the list of references and the web links below. We are hoping that some of these other authors will be able to join in and make this a truly International on-line joint effort, and so rapidly increase its usefulness to all of us.

While there will always be a place for hardcopy versions, some of the advantages of this on-line version are:

readily available to all cybercavers around the world.
always up-to-date, without the effort and expense associated with the reprinting of a paper edition.
can be downloaded for off-line searching for those not on the Internet.
rapid turnaround for additions and corrections.
an opportunity for all interested cavers around the world to participate in its construction.
negligible publication costs.
on-line text searching means that alphabetically sorted versions for each language do not have to be produced - one version is sufficient, regardless of how many languages are included.

Further languages will be added as they become available, and eventually it is planned to link the words to definitions in their respective language, thus making it a real dictionary.

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Co-ordination

The work of the Dictionary is being co-ordinated by Dr. Attila KÓSA, Chairman of the Caver's Dictionary Working Group of the Informatics Commission of the International Union of Speleology.

Please get in touch if you would like to join the Working Group, or just help with the project.

Dr. Attila KÓSA
Tel: +36 (1) 364-3676 (home).
Email: kosaatti@mail.matav.hu (Please do not send more than a single page, or any attached files, to this email address without prior agreement.)

Additions and Corrections

If you can supply new words or corrections, or have other suggestions for improvements, please don't hesitate to email the details. All contributors will be acknowledged below.

References

ASHBROOK, B., GLIGAN, M. (1993): An English-Romanian Caver's Dictionary. Pack Rat Scat No. 52, Summer, 1993. The Greater Allentown Grotto, PA, USA.
BALÁZS, D. (1990): A karsztológiában és szpeleológiában használt fontosabb idegen szakkifejezések szótára - Karszt és Barlang, 1990. II. pp 127. Budapest.
BINI, A., MENEGHEL, M., SAURO, U. (1986): Proposta di legenda per una cartografia geomorfologica delle aree carsiche - Atti e Memorie della Comm. Grotte "E. Boegan" Vol. 25., pp. 21-59. Trieste.
CIGNA, A. A., RAILTON, C. L. (1977): Glossario speleologico - Speleological Glossary - Le Grotte d'Italia, (4) VII (1977), Bologna.
CULLINGFORD, C. H. D. (1962): British Caving - London.
CULLINGFORD, C. H. D. (1969): Manual of Caving Techniques - London.
ERARD, J. (1992): Vocabulaire allemand-français de spéléologie - Paris.
FIELD, M. S., KRAEMER, S. R., PALMER, A. N. (1999): A Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology with Special Reference to Environmental Karst Hydrology - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC.
FRACHON, J.C. (1990): Lexique Speleo-Secours/Cave Rescue Vocabulary (English - Dutch - French - German - Hungarian - Italian - Portuguese - Slovak) - Spéléo-Secours Français.
GÈZE, B. (1973): Lexique des termes français de Spéléologie physique et de karstologie - Annales de Spéléologie, Tome 28, Fascicule 1.
JENNINGS, J.N. (1979)

...and many more - et encore beaucoup d'autres - ...u.v.a. - ...és még sok más

Acknowledgements

The Dictionary is of course an ongoing joint effort by many people around the world who are helping it grow by adding new concepts, words, and even whole languages, and by tuning the existing list. Everyone making a contribution will be acknowledged.

Collaborators:
Those who have contributed significantly to this project to date.
CARREÑO, Rafael (VE)
CHABERT, Claude (FR)
FEKETE, Alexandru (RO)
FERRARI, Graziano (IT)
KÓSA, Attila (HU)
MAREK-LIMAGNE, Edit (FR,HU)
MATTHEWS, Peter (AU) (database system & web site)
OLDHAM, Tony (GB)
SCHUSTER, Roger (DE)
TRAVASSOS, Luiz Eduardo Panisset (BR)

Contributors:
Others who have made suggestions for additions or corrections to date.
ASHBROOK, Bert (US). The Greater Allentown Grotto. Jun 98.
BISCHOFF Brian (IS). Oct 99.
CRYSTAL, Bonnie (US). Speleoradiology Western Survey. May 98.
CSER, Ferenc (AU). Jun 98.
DE SCHRYVER, Jacques (FR). Aug 99.
ELLIOTT, Bill (US). Missouri Department of Conservation. Jun 98.
ESKES, David (NL). Speleo Nederland. May 98.
FERRARI, Graziano (IT). May 98.
GARASIC, Mladen (HR). Croatian Speleological Federation. May 98.
HILL, Carol (US). May 98.
HILL, Paul (US). May 98.
LARIO, Javier (ES). Departamento de Geologia, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Jun 98.
LABEGALINI, José Ayrton (BR). May 99.
MALECKAR, Franci (SI) Feb. 99
MINTON, Mark (US) Jul 00.
PRICE, Liz (GB). Apr 99, Jun 99.
PROFFITT, Merrilee (US). May 98.
STEVEN, Linda (FR). Aug 99.
URBANI, Franco (VE). Sociedad Venezolana de Espeleologia. Mar 99.
WADDINGTON, Andy (GB). Northern Pennine Club & Cambridge Univ. C.C. Jun 98.

Updates

23-Aug-2000 Edition 6:
Added:

First pass of Italian terms by FERRARI (IT).
Concepts: 341, 342.
References: Cigna & Railton; Field, Kraemer & Palmer; Krause; Società Speleologica Italiana.

Updated:

Concepts: 1, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 32, 33, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 43-45, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 57-59, 63, 67, 70, 71, 75-79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 89, 90-94, 96-100, 102, 106, 109, 112, 114, 115, 119, 121, 124-128, 130-133, 135-138, 140, 141, 143-148, 150-159, 161-163, 165, 167, 168, 170, 173, 176-179, 181-183, 185, 186, 188, 189, 199, 201, 203, 204, 206, 208, 210-214, 217, 218, 221-223, 225-233, 236-239, 241, 242, 248-252, 254, 255, 258-261, 263, 265, 266, 268-273, 275-279, 281-284, 287-289, 291-294, 296, 297-309, 311, 313-326, 328-333, 336, 337, 338-340.
Collaborators, Contributors.
Browser Settings page.

Deleted:

European mirror site link.

7-Nov-1999 Edition 5:
Concepts were not updated in this edition.
Added:

First pass of Portuguese terms by TRAVASSOS (BR).
First pass of Romanian terms by FEKETE (RO).
Link to Garry Smith's Glossary.
Extra pages to allow display of Central European character set.

6-Apr-1999 Edition 4:
Added: First pass of Spanish terms by CARREÑO and URBANI (VE).

27-Aug-1998 Edition 3:
Updated concepts: 5, 8, 13, 18, 28, 32, 36, 43, 74, 76, 80, 92, 134, 154, 233, 297, 332.

6-July-1998 Edition 2:
Updated concepts: 1, 3, 11, 46, 76, 78, 79, 91, 98, 123, 136, 137, 139, 145, 176, 206, 208, 229, 238, 251, 294, 298, 306, 321.

17-May-1998:
Initial on-line version.

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Original page address: http://rubens.its.unimelb.edu.au/~pgm/uisic/lexintro.html
Editor & Working Group Chairman: Dr. Attila KÓSA | Email: kosaatti@mail.matav.hu - Please do not send more than a single page, or any attached files, to this email address without prior agreement.
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