The question is not about sophisticated linguistic data. It's about a simple link to a source that supports a term.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 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 :) >> >> -- >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> “We're living in pieces, >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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