Comments on: Distributed Cataloging and the Semantic Web http://archivesandinformation.com/quantum/?p=125 Exploring the history of cultural heritage digitization and the management of digital objects Thu, 20 May 2010 20:35:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Quantum Archivist http://archivesandinformation.com/quantum/?p=125&cpage=1#comment-180 Quantum Archivist Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:33:26 +0000 http://archivesandinformation.com/quantum/?p=125#comment-180 <a href="#comment-179" rel="nofollow">@Nathan </a> I confess I know very little about this (but will soon learn more). Thanks for the starting point for my education. Cheers. @Nathan
I confess I know very little about this (but will soon learn more). Thanks for the starting point for my education. Cheers.

]]> By: Nathan http://archivesandinformation.com/quantum/?p=125&cpage=1#comment-179 Nathan Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:41:22 +0000 http://archivesandinformation.com/quantum/?p=125#comment-179 This is something we handle pretty frequently in the linked data sub genre of semantic web; in short we just @lang tag every name; so for instance if you lookup London on dpedia you'll find the name for London in virtually every language; adding further en-US vs en-GB really wouldn't be that big a chore imho :) when it comes to translating from extracted chunks of text though.. well that may be a bit trickier to detect; especially as many mixup en-US and en-GB so much (with z/s swapping etc) nice article :) This is something we handle pretty frequently in the linked data sub genre of semantic web; in short we just @lang tag every name; so for instance if you lookup London on dpedia you’ll find the name for London in virtually every language; adding further en-US vs en-GB really wouldn’t be that big a chore imho :)

when it comes to translating from extracted chunks of text though.. well that may be a bit trickier to detect; especially as many mixup en-US and en-GB so much (with z/s swapping etc)

nice article :)

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