What language do I speak?
This is an exercise in searching the semantic Web for some information. I
will write a story about what and why and how later...
This page lets you ask some basic questions from Libby Miller's database
of public FOAF information. If you
create some new
foaf data (including language information would be nice) you can add it to the database in real
time. Otherwise the database tries to crawl the Semantic web for more
information every week - or use the advanced version to work with other
sources.
or ask about specific languages
And some from when this was being done
The advanced version of this page allows you
to make your own queries. This was put together by Charles McCathieNevile but most of tech work was
done by Libby Miller.
Notes and "to do" list
- For the most part this relies on FOAF data that has a givenname and a
family_name property available (exception is the first query). So it
doesn't get the full set of people in the database
- It would be nice to have some flag icons
- Learn to write Japanese in Amaya
- Make a tool for people to create language data easily. If you have an
Xforms-capable browser you
could download the tarball of experimental
foaf-generating Xforms stuff from Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer and
Chaals - it is a bit of a mess, but it works locally, ending up with a
file called foaf.rdf. Chaals has been using X-smiles and Sebastian has been using
DENG, and they interoperate which
is a good start.
- This database believes everything it is told at the moment - find
someone to fix that or work from a more powerful (and less trusting)
database
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