[open-linguistics] Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud

Sat Feb 4 13:20:13 UTC 2012

Fine work, folks!

I have a few data sets under preparation, and have added to my schedule to
contribute them by the first half of March.

Cheers,
Pablo

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Christian Chiarcos <
christian.chiarcos at web.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> this is to announce the new website for the LLOD cloud diagram (
> http://linguistics.okfn.org/**llod <http://linguistics.okfn.org/llod>),
> and the corresponding wiki page (http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/**
> linguistics/llod <http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/linguistics/llod>). Now, both
> contain descriptions of the LLOD cloud diagram, its development and how to
> participate -- and an updated version of the diagram with hyperlinks
> pointing to the respective resources.
>
> The LLOD cloud summarizes efforts of various OWLG members to create a
> Linked Open Data (sub-)cloud of linguistic resources, it is a concrete
> result of the last two telcos, in its appearance inspired by the LOD cloud
> diagram by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. The diagram includes
> linguistic resources (lexical-semantic resources, corpora, metadata
> repositories and linguistic data bases) that have been published in Linked
> Data format, or that will be published as such. For those resources that
> have not yet been made publicly available, their authors have made
> commitments to provide the data at some later point in time. With more and
> more resources being published, the diagram will be restricted to resources
> that are available under an open license, and links that have been really
> implemented rather than envisioned. Until that point, it should be referred
> to as a *draft for an* LLOD cloud diagram, and mostly serve as a basis for
> subsequent discussions.
>
> The diagram is published under a CC-BY license, and it is attributed to
> the working group as a whole, not a particular individual. Using a
> Mercurial repository, it can be edited in a collaborative manner, see
> http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/**linguistics/llod#How_to_**contribute<http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/linguistics/llod#How_to_contribute>.
> Please feel invited to contribute. Also, it would probably be a good idea
> if we could document the continuous progress of the cloud in joint
> publications. Based on the state of affairs in October 2011, Sebastian
> Hellmann, Sebastian Nordhoff and myself have written a paper where we
> describe the potential of a LLOD cloud for representative examples of
> linguistic resources by linking lexical-semantic resources (DBpedia),
> linguistic data bases (Glottolog/Langdoc, OLiA) and annotated corpora
> (POWLA). However, this is not intended to serve as a reference publication
> for the LLOD cloud or the diagram; for such a reference publication, we
> would appreciate if more (if not all) contributors would be directly
> involved.
>
> The current diagram was created with inkscape in svg. Earlier versions
> built with OmniGraffle, Powerpoint or Cacoo are hereby deprecated. The svg
> version also includes clickable hyperlinks to the resources or their
> documentation. (Some missing hyperlinks will be added with the next
> update.) Unfortunately, these hyperlinks cannot be exported to pdf.
>
> Comments on the diagram can be directly posted to the mailing list.
> (Confidential messages can be sent to the list administrators,
> open-linguistics-owner at lists.**okfn.org<open-linguistics-owner at lists.okfn.org>.)
> If you have other resources that you would like to see included, you can
> either add them yourselves (as described in http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/**
> linguistics/llod#How_to_**contribute<http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/linguistics/llod#How_to_contribute>)
> or ask the list administrators for help. Feedback, criticism, and possible
> additions are highly appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Christian (+ Sebastian H. + Sebastian N.)
>
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:01:26 +0100, Christian Chiarcos <
> christian.chiarcos at web.de> wrote:
>
>  Dear all,
>>
>> a key result of the last telco were commitments by several participants
>> to provide different types of linguistic data, including various
>> lexical-semantic resources (marked green), corpora (marked orange), and
>> meta data repositories (marked blue).
>>
>> I have summarized possible links between resources we discussed at this
>> occasion in the diagram under https://cacoo.com/diagrams/**
>> jmtxae5nl0vuYblW <https://cacoo.com/diagrams/jmtxae5nl0vuYblW>. For the
>> abbreviations used, please see the minutes of the last telco under
>> http://okfnpad.org/OWLG. (Unfortunately, cacoo does not support arrows,
>> so, all [more or less] horizontal lines are to be read as directed edges
>> pointing from left to right, whereas vertical lines indicate bidirectional
>> linking -- suggestions for alternative software for collaborative graph
>> drawing are highly welcome.)
>>
>> The diagram can be edited online. So far, only resources were considered
>> that the participants of the telco were directly involved with. Please feel
>> free to add additional resources already available from the LOD cloud or
>> that can be provided online.
>>
>> The linking between the resources as shown there is partly hypothetical
>> and not yet implemented, and should be discussed more thoroughly in the
>> next telco. Additionally, one should take linking granularity into account.
>> As Judith pointed out before, linking Wiktionary dumps at the lexeme level
>> would be easy, but Wiktionary *sense* level alignment could be tricky (no
>> stability for sense IDs).
>>
>> In my opinion, would be sufficient have a coarse-grained (and partially
>> trivial) linking between resources at the moment, to release the data in
>> this form openly and to invite others to develop their own and possibly
>> less trivial linkings. For example, I would expect that an algorithm that
>> automatically creates a sense-level linking out of an lexeme-level linking
>> (e.g., on the basis of the comments associated with it) for, say, WordNet
>> and Wiktionary, should also be applicable to different Wiktionary dumps.
>>
>> Best,
>> Christian
>>
>
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