Many thanks to Wendell Piez, Mike Sokolov, and Ken Holman for your very helpful suggestions and questions both -- I have spent much of the last day or so following the threads you started.

I had 2 questions, I suppose, in the back of my mind:  Is there an equivalent to NLM/JATS for lexicography? But also:  is there a way to think about the many kinds of structured (implicit and explicit) information "packaged" in a dictionary -- especially electronic ones --  that would lend themselves to "unpacking" and exposing them in semantically useful ways -

Your leads were very helpfully in thinking about both --

Thanks so much,

Sheila M. Morrissey

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