Dear All, my name is Stefan Jensen, I work for the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen DK, responsible among other things for the GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus. More on GEMET from http://eionet.eu.int/GEMET . I came across Wiki type approaches recently and I am getting exited about the "open content" possibility this offers to maintain and share environmental terminologies. Just now I am sitting in a meeting where many providers of environmental terminologies as well as technical solutions providers gather under a UNEP umbrella. (see also the thesaurus workshop under http://ecoinfo.eionet.eu.int ). I presented the Wiki-way to the group and there was interest and criticism alike. I promised to explore the feasibility of such a thing...
Rough scetch of a process to pilot this would be: - use Wiki open source software - preferable ZOPE based - to "publish" our material (5200 terms in 22 languages with 5 languages carrying alsodefinitions for the terms)
How easy is it to get such stuff (available in XML/RDF) into it?
- after establishing this core, let people contribute terms, languages, definitions, concepts ...
While we could test this, we would probably introduce some moderation to avoid chaos (but hopefully this is not even necessary). Any ideas on that one?
Well, this is a bit of the story for a start - Anybody out there with some ideas / suggestions e.g.
grateful
stefan