Difference between revisions of "OSGeo Multilanguage Dictionary"

Latest revision as of 01:47, 22 October 2019

This page is a frozen proposal

Update 2019: see Lexicon Committee

Multi-language OSGeo dictionary

The scope is to collect over the years geo* related terms in a multi-language style to facilitate reading/writing in other languages, to help with software internationalization, to help when writing proposals in non-mother-tongue languages (like me who has to write in Italian) etc.

Example (this would be a dictionary software then):

  EN: landscape genetics
  IT: genetica del paesaggio
  DE: Landschaftsgenetik
  ...

Since we are an excellent group of experts covering many languages, we could run this as long-term Edu project.

Once a reasonable amount of terms is available, download should be enabled in Docbook or other formats.

Software platform

 See new prototype at http://geodictionary.osgeo.org/wiki/

We could use the Wiktionary software (http://www.wiktionary.org/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary) and keep it just running. Possibly an OSGeo hacker could also fetch translations from Wikipedia from a handcrafted terms collection of terms to populate an initial dictionary (using the box on the left side which references translations).

Wiktionary is just using MediaWiki as all other WikiMedia sites (and this OSGeo wiki too). So, very easy to run.--steko 06:29, 13 November 2007 (EST)
- I have asked Martin Spott about installation and will report back. Markus Neteler 11:14, 24 November 2007 (EST)
  - Again as SAC ticket: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/188 Markus Neteler 12:17, 12 October 2008 (EDT)
  - Tyler proposes to just use the Wiktionary site - to alleviate maintenance and make it so we can start using something, also to help reduce forking of knowledge from this existing public source that could use it.

Proposed host URL: http://geodictionary.osgeo.org

Proposed license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Interested people

Markus Neteler (proposer)
Landon Blake (A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor)
Marie Silvestre
Venkatesh Raghavan
Clara Tattoni
Tyler
Mateusz Loskot (possibly, with help from Agata Loskot)
Vasile Crăciunescu
Robert Szczepanek
Milena Nowotarska

Why this dictionary?

The View From Here: Geographic Technology Terms to Avoid (or at Least Clarify...) vy Adena Schutzberg , Directions Magazine, October 30, 2008
Parliamo Geo by Alan Sept 2008

Existing related free dictionaries

GRASS Translation Glossary
...

Links

Starter Dictionary

Wikipedia Entry Maintenance

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 We could use the Wiktionary software (http://www.wiktionary.org/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary) and keep it just running.  Possibly an OSGeo hacker could also fetch translations from Wikipedia from a handcrafted terms collection of terms to populate an initial dictionary (using the box on the left side which references translations).
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 * Wiktionary is just using MediaWiki as all other WikiMedia sites (and this OSGeo wiki too). So, very easy to run.--[[User:Steko|steko]] 06:29, 13 November 2007 (EST)
 ** I have asked Martin Spott about installation and will report back. Markus [[User:Neteler|Neteler]] 11:14, 24 November 2007 (EST)
+*** Again as SAC ticket: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/188 Markus [[User:Neteler|Neteler]] 12:17, 12 October 2008 (EDT)
+*** [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler]] proposes to just use the [http://wiktionary.org Wiktionary] site - to alleviate maintenance and make it so we can start using something, also to help reduce forking of knowledge from this existing public source that could use it.
+Proposed host URL: http://geodictionary.osgeo.org
+Proposed license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 == Interested people ==
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 * [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler]]
 * [[User:mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] (possibly, with help from Agata Loskot)
+*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]]
+* [[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]]
+* [[Milena Nowotarska|Milena Nowotarska]]
-== Content providers ==
+== Why this dictionary? ==
-* Book in progress: "Handbook of Geospatial Technology: For Analysis and Modeling" (Springer New York) by Mitasova, Neteler, Mitchell, Olaya: terminology used in the book will be defined via this dictionary
+* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2916&trv=1 The View From Here: Geographic Technology Terms to Avoid (or at Least Clarify...)] vy Adena Schutzberg , Directions Magazine, October 30, 2008
+* [http://ageogblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/parliamo-geo.html Parliamo Geo] by Alan Sept 2008
 == Existing related free dictionaries ==
-* [http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_Translation_Glossary GRASS Translation Glossary]
+* [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Translation_Glossary GRASS Translation Glossary]
 * ...
-[[Category: Education]]
 == Links ==
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 [[Wikipedia Entry Maintenance]]
+[[Category: Education]]