Hello all
I would like to add to the Lingvoj Ontology [1] a couple of properties
enabling to make explicit and easy to query the "linguistic popularity"
(not sure it's the best word for it) of a resource, singularly in DBpedia.
What I mean by that is the set of languages in which a given DBpedia
resource has a WP version.
This information is generally not completely available, and not easy to
extract, from the current DBpedia description. There are generally more of
such languages than the ones used for labels and comments in the DBpedia
description, and even those are not obvious to extract from the page.
Looking for example at my place in DBpedia [2], I find that is is named and
commented in 12 languages, but the source WP article [3] has 26 interwiki
links, meaning it's described in 27 linguistic versions of WP.
Without asking DBpedia to gather labels and descriptions in all those
languages, it should be easy to fetch this language list from the interwiki
links in the page, and include that in the description of the resource. The
size of the list is also a good indicator of the popularity of the topic. I
see a lot of applications for having such information available, either for
Wikipedia editors (which resources in such category are not yet translated
in my language, etc) or data users.
What I propose would be to add the following to the Lingvoj Ontology
@prefix : <http://www.lingvoj.org/ontology#>
:wpLanguage a rdf:Property
rdfs:range :Lingvo ;
rdfs:label "available Wikipedia language"@en ;
rdfs:comment "The language of a Wikipedia version in which the subject
resource is described"@en.
Values of this property could be either instances of languages defined in
DBpedia, or more standardized values such as those defined by lexvo.org
For instance :
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Guillestre> :interwikiLanguage <
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/spa>
And for the linguistic popularity
:wpLanguagesNumber a rdf:Property
rdfs:range xsd:positiveInteger
rdfs:label "number of Wikipedia languages"@en;
rdfs:comment "The number of languages in which the subject resource
has a Wikipedia article"@en.
Comments welcome before I add those properties.
Bernard
[1] http://www.lingvoj.org/ontology
[2] http://dbpedia.org/resource/Guillestre
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillestre
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