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 speleologists. Everyone is invited to participate – this could range from just correcting a mis-spelling to contributing a whole new language.
While there will always be a place for hardcopy versions, some of the advantages of this on-line version are:
- readily available to all cavers and karst workers 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 when 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.
Join them at http://www.uisic.uis-speleo.org/lexintro.html