The question is not about sophisticated linguistic data. It's about a
simple link to a source that supports a term.


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2014-05-09 16:23 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:

> Hoi,
> The integration of lexical content is not planned for some time yet. This
> is very much an issue that is lexical / lexicographic in nature.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 12:16, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am at a the Multilingual Web Workshop in Madrid. I had a discussion
>> here with a person who specializes in multilingual terminology translation
>> about how Wikipedia and its sister sites can be more useful and reliable
>> for people who search for translations of terms from different professional
>> fields - medicine, communications, law, etc.
>>
>> For example, if you go to the Wikipedia article [[Aorta]], how can you
>> know that this term is actually recognized as the English term by any
>> professional medical associations? And if you go to
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101004 , how can you know the same things
>> about each of the translations of this term? For example, how do you know
>> that "Srdcovnica" is recognized as a Slovak term by any medical association
>> or linguistic committee?
>>
>> By itself, the interlanguage link to Slovak is not reliable. A translator
>> to Slovak can, of course, go to a website of a relevant linguistic
>> committee and check the term there. But can it be more direct and
>> machine-readable?
>>
>> A property could probably be created, which would hold an id of a term in
>> such a terminology database, but would it be appropriate to include it in
>> an item page, given that such information is language-specific? It seems
>> reasonable to me, but I wanted to make sure that everybody find it
>> acceptable.
>>
>> And if there are such properties already, I'd love an example :)
>>
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>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>
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