2011/1/5 Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> > 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 > If I understand the request from Shane right, he focuses not on Unicode characters, but the Unicode character database. The latter has a lot of information e.g. about character properties available (see http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/properties.jsp ) which is not incooperated into lexvo.org Felix > > 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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