21.1422, GOLDComm: Working to Develop Digital Standards

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LINGUIST List: Vol-21-1422. Tue Mar 23 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.1422, GOLDComm: Working to Develop Digital Standards

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Date: 23-Mar-2010
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Subject: Help in the Accessibility of Digital Data

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Dear Subscribers,

LINGUIST List is actively working with other projects 
to develop digital standards that will aid in the search 
and retrieval of linguistic information and materials. One 
of these projects is GOLDComm, ('Implementing the GOLD 
Community of Practice: Laying the Foundations for a 
Linguistics Cyberinfrastructure,' NSF grant BCS-0720670), 
which is a University of Washington project directed by 
Prof. Scott Farrar. GOLDComm involves the GOLD Ontology. 
The acronym GOLD stands for General Ontology of Linguistic 
Description. The GOLD ontology is a machine-readable 
representation of linguistic concepts, definitions of these 
concepts, and the relationships among them 
(http://linguistics-ontology.org/info/about). 

Linguistic tools can make use of the ontology by mapping a 
range of existing annotation patterns to GOLD concepts and 
thereby facilitating searches across wide ranges of data 
with different annotations. To give you an example, assume 
you would like to investigate past tense marking on 
adjectives in Ojibwe, an Algonquian language. You have two 
large collections of interlinear-glossed text (IGT) from 
different researchers. Researcher A annotated past tense 
marking with the abbreviation 'past' and adjectives with 
'adj'. Researcher B, however, used 'pst' and 'aj' for her 
annotations instead. Hence, this would normally require 
you to conduct at least 2 separate searches. However, if 
both annotation patterns are linked to the GOLD concepts 
'past tense' and 'adjectival', it becomes possible to 
search both collections at the same time.

The LINGUIST List part of the GOLD Community project was 
to develop the recently launched GOLD Comm website. The 
goal of the website is to bring together a community of 
typologists, documentary linguists and developers who 
contribute to, improve and use the GOLD ontology. LINGUIST 
List's task is to maintain this website and to help the 
GOLD Community to grow. The GOLD Community and the GOLD 
ontology are designed for your participation. Not only can 
you read about and submit GOLD-related events, tools, papers 
and projects on the GOLD Comm website (http://linguistics-ontology.org/), 
you can also play an active role in refining the GOLD ontology 
(http://linguistics-ontology.org/gold). By selecting a concept, 
you can view the current information we have on this concept, 
e.g. its definition, usage notes, examples, relationships to
other concepts and existing reported issues for this concept. 
The concept view then gives you the opportunity to submit 
your own usage note or example and to report an issue if 
you think that the definition of the concept needs improvement 
or if there is any other comment that you would like to make. 
It is also possible to download the OWL or XML version of the 
ontology allowing you to include it in your application.

Maintaining the GOLD Comm site is only one of many activities 
that the LINGUIST List staff undertakes in order to promote 
the accessibility of digital data. Although we sometimes 
receive funding for the development phase of such projects, 
support for maintenance comes only from you, our users. 
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https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

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