The English-Xhosa Dictionary for Nurses is a unidirectional dictionary with English and isiXhosa as the language pair, published in 1935 and recently converted to Linguistic Linked Data. Using the Ontolex-Lemon model, an ontological framework was created, where the purpose was not to define each lexical entry as “ontologically static” but to rather define it as “historically dynamic” (Veltman, 2006:6, cited in Rafferty, 2016:5), therefore managing the provenance and linked data generation of an ontological framework whose instances are constantly evolving was given particular focus. The output is a framework which provides guidelines for similar applications regarding URI patterns, provenance, versioning, and generation of RDF data.
@InProceedings{GILLIS-WEBBER18.2, author = {Frances Gillis-Webber}, title = {Managing Provenance and Versioning for an (Evolving) Dictionary in Linked Data Format}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {John P. McCrae and Christian Chiarcos and Thierry Declerck and Jorge Gracia and Bettina Klimek}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-19-1}, language = {english} }
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