Hey everyone,
Happy to hear that Wiktionary will make it into Wikidata. Looks like a
long but promising way to go. I just happened to edit Wikidata items
about dictionary types as part of my work on taxonomy extraction (see
presentation
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.61767, paper
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1676/paper2.pdf, and tool
https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikidata-taxonomy). The current state of
dictionary types and instances in Wikidata is given below, created with
"wdtaxonomy Q23622" on the command line.
I welcome everbody familiar with and/or interested in lexicography to
improve this classification (there is no WikiProject lexicography yet).
One problem of Wiktionary is that it tries to subsume all kinds of
dictionaries, making it less practical for specific use cases. I bet
that Wiktionary data in Wikidata will allow to extract special kinds of
dictionaries by selection of Wikidata properties and queries some day in
the future. Before this I hope that we also have some better
understanding of dictionary types.
Cheers
Jakob
dictionary (Q23622) •126 ×279 ↑↑
├──lexicon (Q8096) •38 ×4 ↑
├──lexicographic thesaurus (Q179797) •48 ×7
│ └──synonym dictionary (Q2376111) •1
├──orthographic dictionary (Q378914) •7
├──etymological dictionary (Q521983) •13 ×2
├──frequency list (Q697133) •6
├──glossary (Q859161) •35 ×14 ↑
├──visual dictionary (Q861712) •7 ×1
├──explanatory dictionary (Q897755) •6 ×4
│ ├──explanatory combinatorial dictionary (Q4459737) •2
│ └──monolingual learner's dictionary (Q6901667) •2
│ └──Advanced learner's dictionary (Q17011199) •2
├──encyclopedic dictionary (Q975413) •9 ×43 ↑
│ └──biographical encyclopedia (Q1787111) •9 ×69 ↑
│ ├──group biography (Q1499601) •1 ×1
│ ├──national biography (Q21050458) •1 ×1
│ ├──epoch biography (Q21050912) •1
│ └──dictionary of people (Q26721650) •3
├──pronouncing dictionary (Q1048400) •6
├──reverse dictionary (Q1304223) •9
├──machine-readable dictionary (Q1327461) •10
│ └──online dictionary (Q3327521) •6 ×9
│ └──Wiktionary language edition (Q22001389) ×7 ↑↑
├──single-field dictionary (Q1391417) •3 ×3 ↑
│ ├──law dictionary (Q1464287) •5
│ └──medical dictionary (Q6806507) •2 ×1
├──dictionary of foreign words (Q1455182) •1
├──concise dictionary (Q1575315) •1
├──idioticon (Q1656835) •2 ×1
├──??? (Q1722340) •1
├──learner's dictionary (Q1820290) •1
│ ╘══monolingual learner's dictionary (Q6901667) •2 …
├──??? (Q2134855) •1
├──rime dictionary (Q2191807) •7 ×4
├──rhyming dictionary (Q2210568) •11
├──conceptual dictionary (Q2361647) •6
╞══synonym dictionary (Q2376111) •1 …
├──pocket dictionary (Q2394934) •1
├──bilingual dictionary (Q2640207) •13 ×2
├──slang dictionary (Q3808854) •3 ×2
├──idiom dictionary (Q4492301) •5
├──Anagram dictionary (Q4750851) •1
├──author dictionary (Q5805540) •1
├──language for specific purposes dictionary (Q6486734) •1
├──phonetic dictionary (Q7187214) •1
├──picture dictionary (Q7191193) •2
├──specialized dictionary (Q7574915) •2
│ └──sub-field dictionary (Q7630614) •1
├──defining vocabulary (Q15192747) •1 ↑
└──multi-field dictionary (Q17094463) •1