[open-linguistics] Joint activities (was Creation of a joint linguistic LOD cloud)

[Christian Chiarcos]

Dear all,

at first, thanks to Sebastian for announcing the resource creation  
challenge. If I may elaborate a bit: The idea of the ISWC meeting was to  
have a brain storming session on future activities of the working group.  
Assembling resources for a Linguistic LOD cloud was a very attractive  
option for the participants of the ISWC meeting, so, we will go for it.  
This does not, of course, rule out that other ideas are not pursued, as  
well, and we can continue brainstorming over the list.

At the very beginning, about a year ago, the working group concentrated on  
identifying some common goals for the working group (with results  
summarized in  
http://linguistics.okfn.org/2011/05/20/the-open-linguistics-working-group/),  
and since spring this year, we tried to involve more people to reach a  
critical mass in order to come with some common activities (we had the  
OKCon workshop, and in March the LDL will follow). Now, there are around  
70 people on the list, and it would be interesting to see what we can  
achieve as a group.

There have been several ideas around before. We assembled a list of  
potentially interesting, mostly open resources and integrated some of them  
in CKAN. I personally liked Richard's earlier idea of a workflow  
repository (although I am not sure whether this is different from the  
goals of UiMA or GATE -- at least for the NLP community). And of course,  
there was the idea of a Linguistic LOD that seemed to be what most OKCon  
participants were heading for, including myself. The current resource  
creation drive is an experiment to see whether this idea can mobilize  
people to contribute actively, but other ideas are always welcome, too.

> On Nov 3, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Sebastian Nordhoff wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> at the real life meeting at ISWC in Bonn, we discussed the current  
>> state of the working group and decided that it is time to create some  
>> resources and make them available to showcase the potentional of LLOD.
>>
>> We agreed to start a test case. This means that everybody should select  
>> one or two datasets of their choice and make them available to the  
>> group/to the world. We will then try to establish links between those  
>> resources and see how far we can get, and what other work might be  
>> required in order for the resources to become useful.
>>
>> The deadline for the creation of these resources is DECEMBER 15.
>>
>> It was my impression that everybody present at the meeting was willing  
>> to contribute. Unfortunately, I have no record of the resources to be  
>> provided. Could you please send an email a) confirming your  
>> participation and b) listing the kind of resources you will provide?  
>> People not present at the meeting are of course welcome to join in now.
>>
>> We furthermore agreed to have regular telcos at intervals of either 1  
>> month or 2 months, to be determined based on the outcome of the first  
>> resource creation drive.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Sebastian