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About

Lexvo.org brings information about languages, words, characters, and other human language-related entities to the Linked Data Web and Semantic Web. The Linked Data Web is a worldwide initiative to create a Web of Data that exposes the relationships between entities in our world. Lexvo.org adds a new perspective to this Web by exposing how everything in our world is connected in terms of language, e.g. by considering semantic relationships between multilingual labels (like book or New York). Lexvo not only defines global IDs (URIs) for language-related objects, but also ensures that these identifiers are dereferenceable and highly interconnected as well as externally linked to a variety of resources on the Web. Some of the main features up to date:

• Identifiers for terms in specific languages
  Linked to many external resources (WordNet, thesauri, ontologies, etc.).
  Examples: English 'school', Chinese '朋友'
  

Lookup

Language: (ISO 639-3 code, e.g. "eng" for English) Term: (case-sensitive)

• over 7,000 language identifiers with names in many languages, links to script URIs, geographic region URIs, etc.
  Examples: Spanish, Afrikaans, Oriya, Taungyo
  

• script URIs identify scripts such as the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, Indian Devanagari, or the Korean Hangul system
  

• character URIs based on the Unicode standard, linked to script URIs, with semantic information about CJK characters
  Examples: U+5A34, U+0047 ('G')
  

• also: ISO 3166-1 / UN M.49 geographical regions (example), WordNet 3.0 (example), KangXi radicals (example), etc.

News

2012-03   New Lexvo.org Version with lots of new data (plus bugfixes suggested by Christian Chiarcos)

2012-03   New simple ISO 639-1 identifiers of the form http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-1/en provided for convenience (suggested by David Robillard)

2012-02   Lexvo.org links used by the Spanish National Library

2011-08   Lexvo.org links used by the British Library in their British National Bibliography data

2011-07   Lexvo.org links used by Sudoc, the French academic catalog (more information)

2011-05   Lexvo.org links used by LOCAH Linked Archives Hub project

2011-02   Lexvo Ontology used in new DBpedia Spotlight text annotation service.

2011-01   Lexvo Ontology used in Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF) project.

2010-11   Added MARC 21 / USMARC codes and mapping table.

2010-11   ISO 3166 codes with sameAs links to GeoNames, courtesy of Bernard Vatant (example).

2010-11   Character information now updated to Unicode 6.0.

2010-11   Term links to EuroVoc.

2010-09   Lexvo.org in new LOD cloud image.

2010-07   Blog post about how Lexvo.org adds a semiotic perspective to the LOD Web.

2010-07   New bookmarklets for simple lookups. Thanks to Bernard Vatant once again.

2010-06   New language hierarchy including ISO 639-5 language families. See references for further information.

2010-06   Links to RAMEAU subject headings. Thanks to Bernard Vatant.

2010-06   Links to WordNet 3.0 RDF representation created at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

2010-05   Preliminary versions of Ontology and Java API. Thanks to Bernard Vatant for countless suggestions!

2010-04   Updated Wiktionary translations and links to thesauri. New links to the LCSH thanks to Bernard Vatant!

2010-04   New ID format: Please use http://lexvo.org/id/..., not http://www.lexvo.org/id/....

2010-04   Updated Wikipedia information, new Linguist List information and manually created WordNet links for languages

2009-12   The term query form now supports auto-completion for popular languages

2009-07   Term query form added to main page

2008-12   Downloads finally online, including greatly extended language information

2008-10   Lexvo.org is online! However, we are currently still in the beta testing phase!

2008-10   A Lexvo.org poster has been presented at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference.