Internet encyclopedia

An online dictionary is a database that an electronic lexicon ( general or a Glossary ) offering or an electronic dictionary, and the " line" ( the Internet) is provided as queryable content.

The fabric of the online encyclopedias is available in digital form, which compared to the printed lexicon also allows multimedia content such as animations, films and sound recordings. The information is available as a database and can be queried interactively. While (not in particular when originally printed encyclopedias have been digitized ) differ printed from online encyclopedias not in terms of textual content, but probably concerning the links and search capabilities.

Recent issues not stay with the mere transmission of printed editions or list boxes in electronic media stand, but use the common electronic data base for the construction of lexemes and indexing ( auto-generated cross-references ). The systematic shall be provided by the Re -writing by the collective of authors on the basis of lexical databases, such as by the network protocol " DICT ".

The systematics of the content can be controlled with these systems by spatial images of the network structure of the lexemes and also serve as a navigation tool.