[open-linguistics] date of next meeting

Sun May 29 07:18:19 UTC 2011

Dear all,
I can present something on the Glottolog/Langdoc project, a  
bibliographical database of 200,000 references for 7,000 languages, which  
will be made available as Linked Data
Sebastian N


On Sat, 28 May 2011 08:33:48 +0200, Toma Tasovac  
<ttasovac at transpoetika.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Sebastian.
>
> I added my name to the list of attendees.
>
> First of all, I'd like to encourage you to give your  
> technologically-bent presentations. I'd love to hear about them. I don't  
> know why you seem reluctant about the link between technology and open  
> data — for me they are very much connected…
>
> Now, I myself work on dictionaries and I could offer to do a more  
> conceptual presentation on dictionaries as web-services and the  
> importance for lexicography to move toward linked data etc. Needless to  
> say, if we ever hope to create a global lexicographic infrastructure,  
> that can be achieved ONLY if we serve open data… I could show examples  
> of the projects I've been involved with and would very much enjoy a  
> discussion about what would be the best was to open our data to the  
> world (e.g. our WordNet-based Serbian-English dictionary, or our Serbian  
> morphosyntactic database etc…)
>
> Please let me know if you think this would be ok as a topic, and then I  
> will add it to the schedule.
>
> All best,
> T.
>
> —————————————————————
> Toma Tasovac
> Center for Digital Humanities (Belgrade, Serbia)
> http://humanistika.org • http://transpoetika.org
>
> 27.05.2011., в 21.30, Sebastian Hellmann написал(а):
>
>> Hi,
>> it was on there for a while, but it has disappeared (temporarily).
>> I tried to call Daniel yesterday, but I could not reach him. I guess we  
>> could extend the face2face meeting to a workshop.
>>
>> First, I was hesitant, because our last meeting consisted of Christian,  
>> Jonathan and me.
>> If more people join, we could actually make a workshop.  Christian  
>> could give a presentation about OLiA  and POWLA and I could say  
>> something  about NIF, NLP2RDF and the conversion of Wiktionary to RDF,  
>> but these are rather presentations about technology and only partially  
>> related to Open Data. I am not quite sure, if technology actually plays  
>> a role in opening up data. It could be just a coincidence that the  
>> interlinking and opening movement happen at the same time.
>>
>> Who else would be willing to give a presentation? How should we select  
>> a schedule? What should be on the agenda? I think we should only make  
>> it into a workshop if there are at least 3-4 people coming AND  
>> presenting besides Christian and me. Otherwise, we will just call it a  
>> Working Group meeting.
>>
>> Please post your proposals to this mailing list and add it here:
>> http://okfnpad.org/linguistics
>> (also add yourself, if you attend, so we can estimate how many people  
>> will be there.)
>>
>> There will be three days of workshops before the OKCon, so if we need  
>> more than 2 hours, we can opt out for Mon-Wed.
>> I have not talked to Daniel yet, so I am not sure what the  
>> pre-conference workshops will be like.
>>
>> If we have enough potential presenters and attendees, I will make a  
>> late submission to the Programme committee to get our workshop  
>> officially approved.
>> Regards,
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27.05.2011 20:18, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>> I was going to ask the same thing. :-)
>>>
>>> Sebastian: is there going to be an open linguistics workshop at OKCon?
>>> If so should we put it in the schedule?
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>> 2011/5/27 Toma Tasovac<ttasovac at transpoetika.org>:
>>>> Do you guys know the actual date and time of your next meeting in  
>>>> Berlin during the OKCon?
>>>>
>>>> All best,
>>>> Toma
>>>> —————————————————————
>>>> Toma Tasovac
>>>> Center for Digital Humanities (Belgrade, Serbia)
>>>> http://humanistika.org • http://transpoetika.org
>>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
>> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
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