Hi all Unless I miss something, Unicode characters as linked data have been published for quite a while by Gerard de Melo (in cc) at http://lexvo.org See e.g., http://lexvo.org/id/char/5A34 Bernard 2011/1/4 Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi> > On 2011-01-03, Ivan Herman wrote: > > I have asked an advise from Felix Sasaki, (cc-d), who knows both Unicode >> and RDF. Here is his answer: >> > > In theory creating an RDF version should be a basic character manipulation > exercise. Take the character database file, assign surrogate keys to all of > the characters (they after all have already been painstakingly > unified/deduplicated/etc in a manner even most master data management > initiatives don't do), then assign a predicate to each of the fields, and > proceed to split the file into triples, omitting empty fields. Put up an OWL > schema, and you have a more than good base version of it in RDF. > > Were I running UNIX, the basic processing step would take perhaps half a > day, utilizing standard command line tools. I'm sure somebody around here > can do it even faster. > -- > Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - decoy@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front > +358-50-5756111, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 > > -- Bernard Vatant Senior Consultant Vocabulary & Data Engineering Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com ---------------------------------------------------- Mondeca 3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: http://www.mondeca.com Blog: http://mondeca.wordpress.com ----------------------------------------------------
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