Ester,

This looks like a great idea and though I am a big fan of helpful maps as illustrations, generating a .png per word could be very burdensome. Could your software reside on Toollabs? I see uses for such visualizations with words on Wikidata, not only through the context of Wiktionary, but also in the Wikidata class tree (still mostly unconnected).

Best,

Jane

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ester Pantaleo <esterpantaleo@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, 

I am writing to get some feedback on an IGE grant proposal I submitted to Wikimedia that might be of interest to the Wikidata community as it aims at building a database from Wiktionary data. 

More specifically the aim of the project is to develop an interactive visualization for etymological relationships using dbnary's extraction-framework (for Wiktionary) 

http://kaiko.getalp.org/about-dbnary/

The data behind the visualization will consist of an RDF database of Wiktionary data (definition, part of speech, synonyms, etc) built using dbnary and a database of etymological relationships built using a custom code (to be integrated into dbnary) that translates Wiktionary textual etymology into a graph database of etymological relationships. 

A demo of my interactive visualization etytree is available here:

http://www.epantaleo.com/2015/12/01/etymology-tree/

The visualization will present - in one graph - the etymology of all words deriving from the same ancestor. Users can expand/collapse the tree to visualize what they are interested in. The textual part attached to the graph can be easily translated in any language and the app would become a multilingual resource. 

I am writing to the Wikidata community because I would like to know if the Wikidata community thinks Wikidata could host this data. This project could help integrate dbnary into a Wikimedia environment and create a database from Wiktionary. In particular, the database of etymological relationships will be available for the community and can be used as a resource to study the history of languages, how pronunciation evolved through time, and eventually how semantics evolved through time.

The link to the grant proposal is 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary

Feedback is very welcome on the grant proposal page or on the talk page of the grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary

Looking forward to read your comments.

Thanks a lot!

Ester Pantaleo

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