Multilingual on-line Dictionary of Astronomical Concepts

[Bernard Vatant]

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2009/11/25 M. Heydari-Malayeri

>
> Dear Bernard,
>
> I am really delighted by very encouraging feedbacks from you and others.
> Thank you very much.
>
> > 1. It would be great to have this treasure available in the linked data
> > cloud. Will the underlying data be available at some point as a dump of
> > any kind? I think about (and would happily help to provide) a
> > transformation into SKOS (and maybe extensions such as
> > "etymologicalNote") which would enable linking to IVOA vocabulary (and
> > others, DBpedia, whatever).
>
> I am quite open to any proposal in the framework of the dictionary's
> goals. Right now there is still a lot to be done to improve its present
> version.
>
> > 2. The presentation document speaks about extending the work in other
> > languages. Is there a collaborative project/platform somewhere in
> > project? Having e.g., not only translations, but definitions in French
> etc.
>
> Presently there is no "concrete" project to extend it to other
> languages. But at some point it should start.
>
> > 3. This news is really in tune with my current reading of François Ost
> > "Traduire - Défense et illustration du multilinguisme", so far available
> > only in French AFAIK, see more about it at
> > http://mondeca.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/notre-langue-cest-la-traduction/
> > (also in French, désolé, certainly will write more about it in English
> > soon).
>
> Thanks for this information. In exchange, see this Press Release by
> Paris Observatory:
>
> http://www.obspm.fr/actual/nouvelle/nov09/dico.en.shtml
> http://www.obspm.fr/actual/nouvelle/nov09/dico.fr.shtml
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mohammad.
>
>
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