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6th Framework
Thom,
 
I think Stefan Jensen might be interested to join or at least support this effort. I am not sure whether he reads this list, so I cc to him. Of course, GEMET is the property of the European Environment Agency, but may be they would be interested in some value enhancement by adding word morphology ("stemming"), phonetics, cross-associations other than wider-narrower-term, etc, etc.
 
EUROPA server (http://europa.eu.int/). is a good idea. So there are only 8 languages missing. I am not sure the EU will support these, as they are not "official" EU languages (yet?). But we should at least give it a try.
 
Cheers,

Thomas Bandholtz
CM / KM Division Manager; XML Network Moderator
Competence Center Content Management
SchlumbergerSema
http://www.schlumbergersema.com

Kaltenbornweg 3
D50679 Köln / Cologne
Germany
+49 221 8299 264

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From: Thom Pick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:32 AM
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Subject: AW: 6th Framework

hello thomas,
 
does this mean you are going to submit a proposal? no question that we are interested in taxonomies (i.e. controlled vocabs), after all we worked on GEMET for 6 years. so, you would have our support for a proposal that would further the use and distribution of GEMET. please keep in mind though, that GEMET is the property of the European Environment Agency. so, you will have to talk to stefan ([log in to unmask]) about the conditions for using it (in the end, this will boil down to not calling it GEMET once you changed the vocabulary).
 
for the sample docs i propose to consult the EUROPA server (http://europa.eu.int/). there you will have most of the documents in eleven languages already!
 
cheers
 
thom
 
 
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Von: Bandholtz, Thomas [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Gesendet: Samstag, 18. Mai 2002 13:30
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Hello all,

I would like to draw your attention to taxonomies. Applied to DC, his means some controlled vocabulary to be used as values to be assigned to the metadata attributes.

You all know we have GEMET
http://www.mu.niedersachsen.de/cds/etc-cds_neu/library/select.html,
a 19-lingual thesaurus.

Those who have been in Thun (CH) last year, or in the Expo00 the year before, may remember I had presentations about a thesaurus-based auto-classification we use in the German Environmental Information Network http://www.gein.de/index_en.html, and I was asking for people who could provide (or develop) the same (or a similar) auto-classification in their own language.

Now I think the time has come. The EU is preparing the IST Programme in FP6 http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/workshops.htm. This week I visited the Knowledge Management Workshop in Luxemburg, and I think this is exactly of the kind they are looking for.

I already contributed to the 6th Framework Consultation Meeting: 'Technologies for Major Societal Challenges' last year in Brussels, with a proposal named "European Environmental Topic Map", and this has been accepted as part of the subjects to be sponsored - not yet as a project.

The final call for proposals will be published in Q4 this year. I propose to do the following:

1. Select a set of sample documents (test cases)
2. Have them translated in all languages (currently 19)
3. Re-organize & enhance GEMET as a topic map
4. Discuss some common classification methods
5. Find the language-specific challenges
6. Develop the (currently 19) language-specific text analysis modules
7. Apply them to the test cases: Each of the languages should result in exactly the same GEMET descriptors.

What do you think about this?
I can imagine my US mother company Schlumberger when I will ask for some funding for this project: They'll die laughing about us Europeans going bananas with our 19 languages.

Well, let's give them an example of what will be "KM made in Europe"!

Cheers

Thomas Bandholtz
CM / KM Division Manager; XML Network Moderator
Competence Center Content Management
SchlumbergerSema
http://www.schlumbergersema.com

Kaltenbornweg 3
D50679 Köln / Cologne
Germany
+49 221 8299 264