Dear Gerard,
I am happy for this offer and like to share some issues with colleagues of mine involved. I have actually promoted the idea of including GEMET into "the Wicki world" in an international meeting on environmental terminologies in April in Geneva http://ecoinfo.eionet.eu.int/ (see ECOTERM April workshop) and got very positive feedback from the colleagues.
I paste this message to the follwing colleagues active around Semantic Web, Ontologies, Thesaury, Topic Maps, XML, RDF, OASIS ... - Bernad Vatant at Mondeca www.mondeca.com - Thomas Bandholtz at http://www.bandholtz.info/index_en.html - Alistair Miles http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/thes/ (You find here links to GEMET in SKOS-RDF - which I guess is the terminolgy format of the sematic web) - Miruna Badescu http://www.finsiel.ro/ is currently building a web service which allows machines to pick up GEMET content (1st version available later in September) - Soren Roug at EEA who has integrated some GEMET contenet into http://cr.eionet.eu.int/search_expert.jsp - a multipurpose RDF harvester
Please let us have an exchange on what to do next
kind regards
Stefan
-----Original Message----- From: Gerard Meijssen [mailto:gerardm@myrealbox.com] Sent: 01 September 2004 11:30 To: Stefan Jensen; wiktionary-l@Wikipedia.org; Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales Subject: Re: intro to - thematic glossaries in Wictionary
Stefan Jensen wrote:
Hi Gerard, I have subscribed to the Wictionary mailing list but am not in depth following your discussion. I am just getting the idea that you are adding a botanical glossary. I have earlier on made an offer to add GEMET into Wictionary (5200 term aroun environemnt in 20+ languages). It is jsut that I cannot physically do it ... I take the freedom to forward you a mail >I sent earlier to you guys bur got only little reply on
greetings
Stefan ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stefan Jensen Project Manager Reporting processes and tools European Environment Agency TEL +45 33367232 GSM +45 23683659 http://eionet.eu.int http://eea.eu.int
Thanks for your mail. I am relatively recent on this list, I do not remember to have seen your mail before.
I am exited about this possibility. By looking at the data it seems to me that integrating the GEMET data into wiktionary is easier than integrating the glossary that I have myself. When the glossary is integrated into a wiktionary, there are some considerations. # What to do with current wiktionary content. # Do we create the content in all wiktionaries even when there is no description for the term in the local language. # How do we get all wiktionaries ready to easily upload the content.
I have started an article on META, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GEneral_Multilingual_Environmental_Thesaurus about integrating the content within wikimedia. Personally I would rather integrate your data first than my glossary as your dat is more relevant.
I think it will be valuable to indicate that GEMET data has GEMET as its source. For this the category mechanism comes in handy. All words that are in GEMET, should have a GEMET category.
To enhance the wikimedia experience, for all GEMET keywords for which a Wikipedia article exists, should have a link to the wikipedia article..
Thanks, GerardM
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