The "Arcticae horulae" dictionary of German borrowings in Slovenian was a project of continuous development, from a private amateur collection of German borrowings in the Slovenian language, via an art exhibition of the collection in the National and University Library of Slovenia in 1995, to the publication of the printed edition in 1997, which generated unexpected media interest and was sold out in a just few months. This development process connected the fields of art and science and highlighted the artist's responsibility: the artistic modes (e.g. travesty, performance) misdirected the public to treat the booklet as a reference dictionary. This is the reason that the author takes the end of her project to be the 8th of January 1998, when Marko Snoj, a well-known Slovenian etymologist, published a very negative review of the dictionary in the "Književni listi" supplement of the "Delo" newspaper.
As the printed edition was sold out, and to document the Arcticae horulae project, the http://www.arcticae-horulae.si site was created in 2005. In addition to the PDF of the printed edition of the dictionary booklet, the site contains also the chronology of the project, and various publications about it.
In 2017 CLARIN.SI supported the conversion of the PDF to a TEI XML encoding (using the module for dictionaries, https://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/DI.html), in order to provide a structured digital edition of this interesting resource. In the process of correcting OCR errors in the XML, some mistakes in the original were also corrected. Note, however, that the conversion to the structured XML was performed automatically, so various structure errors most likely remain in the dictionary.
This repository item archives the Arcticae horulae project, and contains the mirror of the www.arcticae-horulae.si site (as of November 2020), the PDF of the printed dictionary, the dictionary in a TEI XML encoding, and a simple HTML rendering of the dictionary, which attempts to preserve the formatting of the original.
