Dwight VanTuyl |
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Dear Subscribers, I've been a programmer at the LINGUIST for a year now and have really enjoyed my time here working with our crew of knowledgeable linguistics students. As a humble code monkey looking for work more stimulating than your average dot-com store front, the LINGUIST List has provided some remarkably interesting projects to work on as well as a group of highly intelligent and curious individuals as guides for my venture into the fascinating world of linguistics. I'm currently working on an amazingly ambitious project with my fellow LINGUIST team members called LEGO (Lexicon Enhancement via the GOLD Ontology). The goal of this project is to transform discreet lexical data sets into a uniformly marked up RDF graph. This project is exciting to me due to its parallel design goals with the perceived evolution of how information should be shared through the internet. We're using advanced technologies which allow an interoperatable exchange of data with documents marked up in RDF. We are also imbuing our data with a common linguistic ontology by referencing GOLD (General Ontology for Linguistic Description) so that it can be accessed and related to by others who adhere to the same terminology. I believe that this project symbolizes The LINGUIST List's endeavor in exploring methods for sharing linguistic data as well as providing a model for other organizations to share their data in a highly accessible manner. The LINGUIST List is a unique organization in the way that it selflessly contributes an enormous amount of data and services to the linguistic community as well as the greater world of academia. Though we are ecstatically fueled by your appreciation for our services, we can not achieve our ambitious goals, nor employ our nutritionally deprived grad-students, without contributions through our annual fund drive. Please consider donating today at https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm. Thank you for your support, Dwight VanTuyl View Dwight's personal page View Dwight's hometown tour! |
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