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Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

My name is Matthew Lahrman; as current GOLD (General Ontology for 
Linguistic Description) Team Leader, I would like to share with 
you the developments of the GOLD Ontology (http://linguistics-ontology.org/). 

Over the past year, we've expanded GOLD to include many more 
definitions, examples, and usage notes that illustrate a wide 
variety of linguistic concepts and constructions. To continue 
to add to the functionality of GOLD, we have just completed a 
workshop at the LSA 2011 with a panel of experts in different 
areas on both linguistic terminology and ontologies. We look 
forward to implementing new ideas to strengthen this resource, 
and ask that you make a donation to help us continue developing 
the GOLD Ontology:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm 

We are currently using GOLD as a standard for marking lexicons 
in our LEGO project and continue to seek implementers to test 
and improve our ontology. As the GOLD ontology continues to 
grow and be refined according to current standards in the field 
of linguistics, your donations will allow us to maintain this 
linguistic resource. Please donate to aid projects like GOLD- 
every contribution is significant:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm 

Best,

Matthew Lahrman
GOLD Team Leader

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