There's lots of thinking going on around how to share vocab lists, so that we could make lists available to other users of kenkyuukai.com (which is currently migrating to japanesejapanese.com), adding to or exchanging lists for particular activities or contexts.

We're exploring a couple of avenues:-

-- A common file format that people using different applications could both export to and import from (tab delineated files, for example - though we may need to agree the fields to use). I've put a test file on the 'Files' page for anyone to download and see if they can make use of. Please let me know by e-mail or comment whether you have any success.

-- An online database that we could all contribute to building. This could be a Filemaker file, hosted on a friendly server. The idea of people being able to upload or add to lists, for all to then use, is quite appealing. Technically, it's beyond me, but there are better brains than mine out there.

(15/10/05 - I've removed the 'word list' pages, convinced that HTML tables are not the way).