[OSGeo-Edu] Proposal: Multi-language OSGeo dictionary

[Clara Tattoni]

Hi,

I think the geo-dictionary is a great idea, actually I wish I could
already use it.
Anyway, I think I can help with the Italian language, what can I do?

Clara

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| Clara Tattoni                                                |
| Laboratorio di  Ecologia                                     |
| Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale              |
| Università degli studi di Trento                             |
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> On 8-Nov-07, at 3:48 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
>> Hi Edu team,
>>
>> I would like to propose the idea of a Multi-language OSGeo dictionary.
>> The scope would be to collect over the years geo* related terms in
>> a multi-language style to facilitate reading/writing in other languages,
>> to help with software internationalization, to help when writing 
>> proposals
>> in non-mother-tongue languages (like me who has to write in Italian) etc.
>> Example: I had to write something about landscape genetics in
>> Italian and lightly struggled to find the correct term.
>>
>> I know about a 4 languages soil science dictionary, also something 
>> similar
>> for other topics (but all with non-free license).
>> Since we are an excellent group of experts covering many languages,
>> we could run this as long-term project.
>>
>> We could use the Wiktionary software (http://www.wiktionary.org/) and
>> keep it running.  Possibly an OSGeo hacker could also fetch translations
>> from Wikipedia from a handcrafted terms collection of terms to populate
>> an initial dictionary (using the box on the left side which references
>> translations).
>>
>> Once a reasonable amount of terms is available, download should be
>> enabled in Docbook or other formats.
>>
>> I have written a small page to better collect further suggestions:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Multilanguage_Dictionary
>>
>> Cheers
>> Markus

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