- From: M. Scott Marshall <mscottmarshall@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:53:55 +0100
- To: Barry Norton <barry.norton@ontotext.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
I was planning to give the example URI for the Japanese language (stemming out of work at the Biohackathon 2011): http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/jpn BTW, I wasn't able to use the simpler URI scheme below for jpn as you had done with grc: http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/jpn ? -Scott On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Barry Norton <barry.norton@ontotext.com> wrote: > > http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/grc > > Barry > > > > > On 16/02/2012 16:15, Jordanous, Anna wrote: > > Hi LOD list, > > I am looking for URIs to use to represent particular languages (primarily > Ancient Greek, Arabic, English and Spanish). This is to represent what > language a document is written in, in an RDF triple. I thought it would be > obvious how to refer to the language itself, but I am struggling. > > I would like to use something like the ISO 639 standard for languages. To > distinguish between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek, I have to use the > ISO-639-2 set of language codes. http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ (The > codes are grc and gre respectively) > > http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/ISO-639/ is an RDF representation of ISO 639 > but it doesn’t include Ancient Greek as it only includes ISO-639-1 > languages. > > As far as I see, I have the following options e.g. for Arabic > Use the > http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?code_ID=22 > http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes-keyword.php?SearchTerm=ara&SearchType=iso_639_2 > http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2#ara > > > This really must be simpler – what am I missing? Any comments welcomed. > Thanks for your help > anna > > --- > Anna Jordanous > Research Associate > Centre for e-Research > King's College London > Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1988 > > > > > -- M. Scott Marshall http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall
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