Multilingual on-line Dictionary of Astronomical Concepts

[Jean.Schneider at obspm.fr]

    Note that thanks to Mohammad Heydari there is a persian
version of the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia:
http://exoplanet.eu/index.ir.php

Jean Schneider
Paris Observatory


On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Bernard Vatant wrote:

> Rob
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> Thanks for this awesome resource. Et un grand bravo à l'équipe de
> l'Observatoire de Paris pour ce travail remarquable!
> A few thoughts
> 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).
> 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.
> 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).
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> Best
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> Bernard
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> 2009/11/25 Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
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>> See: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.4687
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>> Abstract: "On the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy
>> (IYA2009), we present a new interactive dictionary of astronomy and
>> astrophysics, which contains about 7000 entries. This interdisciplinary and
>> multicultural work is intended for professional and amateur astronomers,
>> university students in astrophysics, as well as terminologists and
>> linguists. A new approach is pursued in the formation of a scientific
>> dictionary, which aims to display additional dimensions of astronomical
>> concepts. Although Virtual Observatories recognize the necessity of efforts
>> to define basic astronomical concepts and establish their reciprocal
>> relations, so far they have mainly been confined to archiving observational
>> data. The present dictionary could be an incipient contribution to cover and
>> inter-relate the whole astronomical lexicon beyond subfields."
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