Gemet is the "GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus". This thesaurus is maintained by the European Environment Agency. It contains a 5200 + glossary with translations of the words to 20+ languages and descriptions in a few. The EEA wants to have this information in a wiki format, the data is open content.
Mr Stefan Jensen, the project manager did sent me a mail as I am preparing to upload a botanical glossary into wiktionary (I said so on the wiktionary list). As the GEMET data is already on-line on the internet, and much better structured than the data that I have, I would first break my teeth on this one and then progress to my own glossary.
However, I received a mail which shows how much he would appreciate cooperation; all kinds of people who have expertise in area's like Semantic Web, Ontologies, Thesaury, Topic Maps, XML, RDF, OASIS ... have had my mail forwarded. I have created an article on Meta [[GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus]]. I copied the mail to the talk page.
My plans are simple I want to upload this stuff into nl:Wiktionary. I also plan to tag them with a [[Categorie:GEMET]]. When I have been succesfull, I will also be able to upload it to other wiktionaries. When somebody beats me to it, I will only be pleased.
As I have seen many a time on Wikitech stuff about XML etc, it might be a good idea to synchronise what GEMET does and what we do. So please discuss this preferably on Meta, or on the lists. I have no good idea about how difficult this may prove to be.. Again, information on META.
Thanks, GerardM