Re: [Wiktionary-l] GEMET and Wikipedia

Hi, I'd like to answer and at the same time to forward this message to 
several people involved with "glossary creation and maintenance" as well 
as interested user groups.

As some of you already know I'll have a similar task with uploading 
"colours" in as many languages as possible to the Italian wiktionary 
(list is still under completion) - at the same time I am trying to 
create other thematic lists to be translated by colleagues and then 
uploaded to wiktionary and used in the wsi-glossary project as well as 
the Embedded DICTionary PROJect.

Now I know the GEMET as a very valuable source for translators (I myself 
use it quite often) - so its release in the OpenContent would be a 
wonderful achievement and not only for Wiktionary. So I would kindly 
invite the people of other lists and direct contacts to join this 
project and combine forces.

The meta page Gerard is talking about can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GEneral_Multilingual_Environmental_Thesaurus

If someone of you needs further explanation on how to add comments to 
the link mentioned above and let us know what he/she can do, please just 
ask. Maintain such a huge glossary in so many languages is a lot of work 
and every helping hand (don't forget that there are many simple jobs as 
well) is needed.

I know, not many of us are convinced about OpenSource and OpenContent, 
but most of us use it every day sometimes without knowing about how much 
work is behind.

So again: I invite you to join the project and to  make other people 
aware of it - maybe writing and forwarding this message in other 
languages as well.

And to Gerard: instead of breaking your teeth, could you please tell us 
how we can help you? 

Have a great evening!

Ciao, Sabine

*****

Sabine Cretella
s.cretella <at> wordsandmore.it
www.wordsandmore.it
Meetingplace for translators
www.wesolveitnet.com

Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> 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
>
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