Digitisation of Dwelly
Making Dwelly available digitally, so it could be searched both as a Gaelic-English and an English-Gaelic dictionary was an often heard request from Gaelic speakers, learners and enthusiasts. Due to a change in copyright law and various other complications, it eventually took a German learner of Scottish Gaelic, Michael Bauer, over 10 years to complete the digitisation. It was finally launched online in co-operation with Will Robertson, a software engineer from Perthshire, in January 2009 under the name Dwelly-d (short for Dwelly digiteach "Digital Dwelly").
Their work, carried out without any outside support, was subsequently commended in a motion in the Scottish Parliament on the 6 January 2009 and an Early Day Motion in the Westminster Parliament on 14 January 2009.
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