[open-bibliography] Bibliographical data for the world's lesser known languages

Sat Mar 3 11:53:52 UTC 2012

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:22:55 +0100, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Sebastian Nordhoff
> <sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> for the last 2.5 years, I have been working on Langdoc, a comprehensive
>> collection of bibliographical data for the world's lesser known  
>> languages.
>> It provides access to more than 180,000 references of descriptive works  
>> such
>> as grammars, dictionaries, word lists, texts etc. Search criteria  
>> include
>> author, year, title, document type, macro‐area, and genealogical
>> affiliation.
>
> Very cool!  What relation, if any, does this have to the Ethnologue or
> Rosetta projects?

The 'languoid' part is similar to Ethnologue, but more conservative and  
more empirical. We strictly follow the scientific literature, whereas  
Ethnologue maintain their own records, which are not publicly accessible  
and regularly depart from scholarly consensus.

Glottolog/Langdoc has a wider scope than Ethnologue in that we provide  
identifiers for all nodes, not only languages. This is similar to  
multitree.org.

Glottolog/Langdoc provides both classification and references, which the  
aforementioned projects do not do. In that respect, it is similar to OLAC.

Glottolog/Langdoc follows the principle of Linked Data, provides RDF, and  
is integrated into the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud  
http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/

Rosetta collects texts and documents, we collect references. We only have  
copies of 5% of our references.

>
>> Data are available under CC-BY-NC due to some issues upstream.
>
> Depending on how the data have been mingled and how separable they
> are, you might consider distributing two data sets: 1) your current
> CC-BY-NC data set and 2) a CC-BY subset without the NC restriction.

this seems like a good idea. We have a trace of the original sources, so  
we could adjust the license according to provenance

Best
Sebastian

>
> Tom
>
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