Redesign of the ids:Language class / properties using more accurate ontologies.

HaydarAk commented 4 years ago

Problem:

The current implementation of ids:Language, especially the language instances, lack references to existing, standardized language vocabularies and language code lists. dcterms is inaccurate.

Suggestion:

Redesign ids:Language using the Lingvoj vocabulary. Lingvoj further specifies dcterms:language and dcterms:LinguisticSystem and also contains instances of languages with references to standardized language codes.

Example of an instance

lexvo:deu
    a   schema:Language, lingvo:Lingvo ;
    rdfs:label   "German" ; 
    lvont:iso639P1Code   "de" ;
    owl:sameAs  loc1:de ; 
    lvont:iso639P2BCode   "ger" ;
    owl:sameAs  loc2:ger ;
    lvont:iso639P2TCode   "deu" ;
    lvont:iso639P3Code   "deu" ; 
    owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:deu> ;
    rdfs:seeAlso <https://www.freebase.com/authority/iso/639_3/deu> ;
    prov:hadPrimarySource  <http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=deu> ;
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://www.language-archives.org/language/deu> ; 
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/?q=de> ;
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/index_html?langcode=de> ;
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://de.wikipedia.org> ;                                                  
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_language> ;    
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/german.php> ; 
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://www.omniglot.com/writing/german.htm> ; 
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://www.lexilogos.com/english/german_dictionary> ; 
    lingvo:supportingResource  <http://www.lexicool.com/dictionaries_german.asp> ; 
    foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf   <http://www.lingvoj.org/languages/tag-de.html> .

sebbader commented 4 years ago

I am not sure how 'durable' the vocabulary is. There is no organization behind it and I could be that at some point in the future the server and the vocab are simply gone. However, I really like the references to ISO 639. Can't we just link to that standard, and 'pretend' its RDF/Linked Data?

HaydarAk commented 4 years ago

Can't we just link to that standard, and 'pretend' its RDF/Linked Data?

That's basically what they do with: owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:deu> ;

except that they also define additional properties and related resources.

Possible solution

What would be the "best practice" modelling of this ? Adding the references to the of ids:Language instances (example below) ?

idsc:GERMAN a ids:Language;
    rdfs:label "German";
    owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:deu> ;

We could also switch to the coding scheme of the ISO standard, for the code:

idsc:DEU a ids:Language;
    rdfs:label "German";
    owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:deu> ;

Any suggestions regarding the modelling, @clange ?

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