{"id":1356,"date":"2006-11-05T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T16:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2007-09-06T01:03:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T06:03:36","slug":"the-dictionary-of-words-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"The Dictionary of Words in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/wildcloud.jpg\" title=\"Image of Word Cloud\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/wildcloud.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Word Cloud\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a> The <a href=\"http:\/\/tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca\/~dictwordwild\/\">Dictionary of Words in the Wild<\/a> is an experiment in public textuality that I&#8217;m leading. Andrew MacDonald has done the programming and is contributing images (along with others). You can get an account and upload pictures of words or phrases. We have an application programming interface that you can use to then create web applications that call the dictionary. Join, sample, load! We need pictures.<\/p>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca\/~dictwordwild\/phrase\" method=\"post\" target=\"_blank\">\n  Try a phrase: <input type=\"text\" size=\"20\" name=\"phrase\" value=\"Open Silence\"\/><br \/>\n  <select name=\"height\"><option value=\"\">Set height<\/option><option value=\"50\">50 pixels<\/option><option value=\"100\">100 pixels<\/option><option value=\"150\">150 pixels<\/option><option value=\"200\">200 pixels<\/option><\/select><br \/>\n  <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Create Phrase\"\/><br \/>\n<\/form>\n<p align=\"left\">James pointed me to a similar experiment, <a href=\"http:\/\/thevisualdictionary.net\/\">The Visual Dictionary &#8211; a visual exploration of words in the real world.<\/a> This focuses on single words and has a ranking\/rating system. It doesn&#8217;t, however, have the API we have. I wonder how we can interoperate? Can such dictionaries be a movement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dictionary of Words in the Wild is an experiment in public textuality that I&#8217;m leading. Andrew MacDonald has done the programming and is contributing images (along with others). You can get an account and upload pictures of words or phrases. We have an application programming interface that you can use to then create web &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dictionary of Words in the Wild<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-and-interactive-art","category-text-analysis","category-words-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}