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

[Scott Mitchell]

On 20 Nov 2007, at 07:23, Clara Tattoni wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think the geo-dictionary is a great idea, actually I wish I could
> already use it.
>

I agree with Clara's sentiment, it would be great to have already.  I  
haven't spoken up to date since I question my ability to contribute,  
but consider this my "philosophical" support, as well as a  
realization that I may be able to encourage graduate students to help  
out as they figure out terminology.

Cheers,
Scott


>
>> 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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