- From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:10:31 +0200
- To: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linking Open Data <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>
Hi Chris >> Why don't Linked Data browsers display xml:lang tags on annotations >> (rdfs:label)? Is not the lang tag part of the semantic information? > > good and legitimate question. Good. > I think the responce is that low because everybody agrees with you > that browsers should do this and hopefully some browser implementors > have added this feature to their todo lists. <look away/> > One Linked Data tool that displays language tags in its HTML view is > Pubby (http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/pubby/). > See for example http://dbpedia.org/page/Woody_Allen which is generated > using Pubby. I'd seen the languages tags on DBpedia html. I was not aware it was generated by Pubby. It's not the best example, though, since people names are generally not translated. But at least I get the chinese, japanese and russain transcriptions. Actually, AFAIK, DBpedia extracts labels from the 15 top Wikipedia languages (by number of articles). For lingvoj I drill down through the whole list of 250 wikipedia languages. For example for http://www.lingvoj.org/fr I get labels in 125 languages or so. More to come :-) . > The logical next step after displaying language tags would of course > be to allow the user to select his prefered language and to display > labels in this language wherevery possible. But sadly I don't know of > any Linked Data browser that does this so far. That's a basic option we have in Mondeca ITM interface from the beginning (2000). Every user has a default interface language and other languages she can switch to at any moment. > Another problem is that data sources hardly provide multilingual > labels and abstracts. The only one I know about that does this on a > bigger scale is http://dbpedia.org/ which provides 12 languages. So, > also a todo for the dataset providers. There is a notable pionneer here you should be aware of, which is GeoNames, which retrieves labels in every available language on Wikipedia - as I do for lingvoj.org See http://www.geonames.org/2969679/ "alternate names". Or see the RDF http://sws.geonames.org/2969679/ Bernard -- *Bernard Vatant *Knowledge Engineering ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- Tel: +33 (0) 871 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/>
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