Lars:

I haven't forgotten about this request, but there hasn't been an
opportunity to follow up on it with the person whom I might get this kind
of data from.

However, I'm in Orlando, and was able to catch the latter half of a
presentation by Steve Pepper on Topic Maps (I had to pick up a colleague
at the airport, so missed the beginning). So, I finally have had the
chance to learn a little bit of what topic maps are all about. Quite
interesting! It makes me want to go learn more and do something along this
line with the Ethnologue. There are some limits to what might be possible
since our business department doesn't want to give away all of the
Ethnologue content for free on the web, hence cutting into sales of the
print version. There is at least some info on the public site, and the
mapping of ISO 639 to Ethnologue that Gary Simons and I did will be
getting incorporated into our public site (you can see the trial pages at
http://hebron.sil.org/test/iso639.asp). Steve Pepper demoed merging two
different topic maps in Omnigator, and showed how he could create a
mapping that would handle source topic maps with different subject
indicators but that are really comparable. It made me wonder whether our
ISO 639/Ethnologue mapping analysis could be used in a similar way.


Peter

On 11/13/2001 02:16:26 PM Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>* Lars Marius Garshol
>|
>| True. I should have been more explicit. I'm looking for something
>| that has a fairly open copyright, so that I can reuse the data on my
>| scripts and languages site.
>
>* Peter Constable
>|
>| What exactly is it that you want to reuse? Do you want a lot of
>| information about languages, or do you simply want to provide
>| identities of languages, possibly with pointers to sources of info
>| on languages?
>
>I was really looking for just the family tree of languages. I'll take
>anything I can get, though. Below is my wishlist in decreasing
>priority:
>
> a) the identities of languages,
>
> b) pointers to more information on each language,
>
> c) details about the language, such as all names, typology, number of
> speakers, countries spoken in, etc.
>
>--Lars M.
>
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