We are studying under which constraints structured lexical data can bemade, at the same time, widely available to the general public (freely ornot), electronically supported, published and reasonably protected frompiracy? A three facet approach- with dictionary tools, web servers and e-mail servers -seems to be effective. We illustrate our views with Alex, a genericdictionary tool, which is used with a French-English-Malay dictionary. Thevery distinction between output, logical and coding formats is made. Storage is based onthe latter and output formats are dynamically generated on the fly atrequest times - making the tool usable in many configurations. Keeping the data structuredis necessary to make them usable also by automated processes and to allowdynamic filtering.

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