On 29 September 2014 17:45, Bianca <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, >
Hi Bianca! > My name is Bianca Pereira and I am a PhD Researcher at Insight Centre for > Data Analytics in Ireland [1], working together with Paul Buitelaar and > Georgeta Bordea. I recently attended the SEMANTiCS event and the DBPedia > workshop, and I found very interesting all the effort from the DBPedia > community. > That's connected to DERI, right? > We would like to contribute with the community by creating a DBPedia > chapter for gaelic [2] (the original language from Ireland, where we are > based). We usually call it "Irish". Americans call it "Gaelic", we don't :) > I do not speak gaelic myself but there are irish researchers in our > Centre that do and we have easy contact with groups studying the gaelic > language within the University. > I wouldn't say it's necessary to speak the language, though it certainly helps. A lot will be obvious in context, and I'd be happy to help with anything that isn't. > We believe the creation of this new Chapter can improve the study of the > gaelic language and the use of DBPedia in the analysis of gaelic material. > To do so, we would like to know if the DBPedia community is interested on > this and we are already looking forward to start the procedure to create > this new chapter. There are already some mappings for Irish: http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Mapping_ga and I think there's some basic support in the code. Someone else can tell you what's needed to start a new chapter. -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-developers
