I think that is a great idea. But Wikidata is not suited yet a lexical knowledge base, and I think that would be a necessary precondition for your project.
There is a project plan to make Wikidata suitable to be a lexical knowledge base: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development And I sure hope that we will hear soon how this will move forward :) On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:02 AM Ester Pantaleo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > I am writing to get some feedback on an IGE grant proposal > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary> > I > submitted to Wikimedia that might be of interest to the Wikidata community > as it aims at building a database from Wiktionary data. > > > More specifically the aim of the project is to develop an interactive > visualization for etymological relationships using dbnary's > extraction-framework (for Wiktionary) > > http://kaiko.getalp.org/about-dbnary/ > > The data behind the visualization will consist of an RDF database of > Wiktionary data (definition, part of speech, synonyms, etc) built using > dbnary and a database of etymological relationships built using a custom > code (to be integrated into dbnary) that translates Wiktionary textual > etymology into a graph database of etymological relationships. > > > A demo of my interactive visualization *etytree* is available here: > > http://www.epantaleo.com/2015/12/01/etymology-tree/ > > The visualization will present - in one graph - the etymology of all words > deriving from the same ancestor. Users can expand/collapse the tree to > visualize what they are interested in. The textual part attached to the > graph can be easily translated in any language and the app would become a > multilingual resource. > > > I am writing to the Wikidata community because I would like to know if the > Wikidata community thinks Wikidata could host this data. This project could > help integrate dbnary into a Wikimedia environment and create a database > from Wiktionary. In particular, the database of etymological > relationships will be available for the community and can be used as a > resource to study the history of languages, how pronunciation evolved > through time, and eventually how semantics evolved through time. > > The link to the grant proposal is > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary > Feedback is very welcome on the grant proposal page or on the talk page of > the grant > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary > > Looking forward to read your comments. > Thanks a lot! > > Ester Pantaleo > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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