>Pat Hayes wrote: >Indeed. And if anyone ever hears of a Spanish version, please let us >know about it ASAP. > >Pat > >Hi Pat, Thanks for getting back to me. > >Sidar's translators group [1] are slowly working on translations of >the RDF and OWL specs, but unfortunately at the moment the people >involved are few and busy. Currently we're working on the RDF >Primer, but there are others working on OWL. > >A short note explaining who would use it The comment arose from a trip I took a few weeks ago to Medellin, Colombia, where there was a lot of interest expressed about the SWeb (they invited me there to talk about it) and a lot of enthusiastic young techies, but clearly the lack of anything readable by most students is a major barrier for the folk there. In general, we have here in Florida many contacts in Latin America, visitors from there (mostly Colombia and Costa Rica) and a lot of the software we write gets used there, so visibility in Spanish (and Portugese, to a lesser extent) is always of interest to us. > (and even better a little aid in taking on a part of the translation) I would volunteer, but my linguistic skills are worse than useless. I will make discreet enquiries among my acquaintances to see if anyone can help. >may help to motivate the work. One of the difficulties is that most >of the people there are not RDF experts, which makes it difficult to >translate the specs. (On the other hand it means a few people >learn... :-) :-) Pat > >cheers > >Chaals (not normally on this list - thanks to danbri for bringing >this to my attention). > >[1] http://www.sidar.org/recur/desdi/traduc/index.php > >-- >Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayesReceived on Friday, 7 May 2004 19:56:50 GMT
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