[doap-interest] 9 mulitilingual Software Taxonomies released in 7 languages

Tue Nov 20 19:21:08 EST 2012

Hi Stuart,

In reply to your questions.

(c) as someone with an interest in Pacifika languages (Maori, Samoan,
etc), what are the barriers to entry? How easy to contribute language
names and partial translations of taxonomies?

Other languages could be easily added, but we have no intention to do this 
now. We used a spreadsheet and Google Refine RDF to create the 
multilingual taxonomies. This is explained here:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/document/help-us-give-software-taxonomies-multilingual-labels-represented-skos
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Angi9eRSfGrHdFJ5dmk1aVo0cC1zY2ZUOXZsSkE3cEE#gid=1

(b) the string '"русский язык"@en' appears to have the wrong language
code. Is it meant to be '"русский язык"@ru'?

You are right, it should have a Russian language tag, but as we have 
different languages in the same column that could not so elegantly be 
added using Google Refine RDF. We have removed the language tag here.

(a) the language names don't seem to be translated into the 7
languages, is that included in one of the downloads?

You are right. We have added these languages:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms_foss/amds_sw_taxonomies/ADMS_SW_v1.00_Taxonomies.html
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/release/release100

All these taxonomies are available under an open licence as indicated for 
each separately. The validator - which we used to generate the HTML 
representation - is now made available under the European Union Public 
Licence.

Thanks for your interest in our work. 

cheers,
Stijn

From:   "Stuart A. Yeates" <syeates at gmail.com>
To:     stijn.goedertier at pwc.be
Cc:     doap-interest at lists.usefulinc.com
Date:   16/11/2012 00:24
Subject:        Re: [doap-interest] 9 mulitilingual Software Taxonomies 
released in 7 languages

I very happy to see this released.

Looking at 
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms_foss/amds_sw_taxonomies/ADMS_SW_v1.00_Taxonomies.html

(a) the language names don't seem to be translated into the 7
languages, is that included in one of the downloads?

(b) the string '"русский язык"@en' appears to have the wrong language
code. Is it meant to be '"русский язык"@ru'?

(c) as someone with an interest in Pacifika languages (Maori, Samoan,
etc), what are the barriers to entry? How easy to contribute language
names and partial translations of taxonomies?

cheers
stuart

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:01 AM,  <stijn.goedertier at pwc.be> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to bring to the attention of the subscribers of this list 
that
> we have released 9 software taxonomies with multilingual labels in 7
> languages under an open licence. These taxonomies [3] include:
> - Intended Audience;
> - Natural Language;
> - Operating System;
> - Programming Language;
> - Licence Type;
> - Status;
> - Topic;
> - User Interface / Graphical Environment; and
> - Publisher Type.
>
> The taxonomies can be viewed on this web page:
> 
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms_foss/amds_sw_taxonomies/ADMS_SW_v1.00_Taxonomies.html

>
> and can be downloaded here:
> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/release/release100
>
> The taxonomies are represented in a machine readable format: the SKOS
> standard of W3C. The majority of these taxonomies were originally made
> available in March 2012 by SourceForge under CC BY 3.0 [2]. Other 
taxonomies
> such as Licence Type and Publisher Type were contributed by members of 
the
> AMDS.SW Working Group, including the Technology Transfer Centre [4] of 
the
> Spanish Government and CENATIC [5], the Spanish open-source competence
> centre,
>
> We hope that the use of common taxonomies to categorise software will
> contribute to making software better searchable on the Web.
>
> with kind regards,
> Stijn
>
> [1]
> 
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms_foss/amds_sw_taxonomies/ADMS_SW_v1.00_Taxonomies.html

> [2]
> 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Software%20Map%20and%20Trove

> [3] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/release/release100
> [4] http://administracionelectronica.gob.es
> [5] http://www.cenatic.es
> [6] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/description
>
>
>
>
>
>
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