Hello,
I am writing to get some feedback on an IGE grant proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary>
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_etym…
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…
Looking forward to read your comments.
Thanks a lot!
Ester Pantaleo