Hello Gerard, 2011/1/5 Gerard de Melo <gdemelo@mpi-inf.mpg.de> > Hello Shane and others, > > 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 >> > > As the maintainer of Lexvo.org, I could easily add a few additional > character properties to the Lexvo ontology and RDF dump based > on the particular use cases you are interested in. So far, I have > tried to avoid creating a 1:1 mapping of all properties to predicates. > This makes a lot of sense, since otherwise you get many triples without use cases. Also, there are differences between the properties in terms of stability and data sources. See http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/UCD.html for what is available in version 5.1. Note also that there is information about characters which is not in the properties' data base, e.g. whether a character can be used in an internationlized domain name or not, see http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/idna.jsp . So again, it really depends on the use case what information you want in the RDF representation. Felix > > Best regards, > Gerard > > -- > Gerard de Melo [demelo@mpi-inf.mpg.de] > Max Planck Institute for Informatics > http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~gdemelo/<http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/%7Egdemelo/> > >
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