Languages of the World (Multilingual RDF Descriptions)

Description

Lingvoj means languages in Esperanto. From the frontpage of http://www.lingvoj.org/:

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• http://www.lingvoj.org/lingvoj.rdf is the complete RDF file gathering currently the description of 522 languages, including all languages defined by ISO 639-1 and most of ISO 639-2 codes, and all languages having an active Wikipedia. Descriptions include all ISO 639 codes when available, owl:sameAs links to the URIs defining those languages in different RDF publications, and labels available in multilingual Wikipedias. About 17,000 such labels are available in the current version, in over 250 languages.

   \\xfc\\xfdli\\xfd\\xfc
Each individual language is identified by a URI in the namespace \\xfc\\xfdb\\xfd\\xfchttp://www.lingvoj.org/lang/\\xfc\\xfd/b\\xfd\\xfc. The fragment identifier is a language code conformant to \\xfc\\xfdb\\xfd\\xfc
     \\xfc\\xfda href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"\\xfd\\xfcBCP 47\\xfc\\xfd/a\\xfd\\xfc
    \\xfc\\xfd/b\\xfd\\xfc. <br/>The language code is a two-letters code defined by ISO 639-1 when available, or three-letters ISO 639-2, or 639-3 default the previous ones. It can also include regional tags, for example \\xfc\\xfda href="http://www.lingvoj.org/lingvo/en-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"\\xfd\\xfcen-us\\xfc\\xfd/a\\xfd\\xfc or \\xfc\\xfda href="http://www.lingvoj.org/lingvo/en-gb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"\\xfd\\xfcen-gb\\xfc\\xfd/a\\xfd\\xfc. Such codes are used as values of the "xml:lang" attribute, and also as the prefix of the Wikipedia in this language. <br/>For example "zh" is the code for Chinese language. Therefore this language is identified by \\xfc\\xfdb\\xfd\\xfc

     \\xfc\\xfda href="http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/zh" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"\\xfd\\xfchttp://www.lingvoj.org/lang/zh\\xfc\\xfd/a\\xfd\\xfc
    \\xfc\\xfd/b\\xfd\\xfc. <br/>Content negociation is used to redirect this URI either to a human-readable HTML page \\xfc\\xfdb\\xfd\\xfc
     \\xfc\\xfda href="http://www.lingvoj.org/lingvo/zh.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"\\xfd\\xfchttp://www.lingvoj.org/lingvo/zh.html\\xfc\\xfd/a\\xfd\\xfc
    \\xfc\\xfd/b\\xfd\\xfc, or to a RDF page containing the formal description \\xfc\\xfdb\\xfd\\xfc
     \\xfc\\xfda href="http://www.lingvoj.org/lingvo/zh.rdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"\\xfd\\xfchttp://www.lingvoj.org/lingvo/zh.rdf\\xfc\\xfd/a\\xfd\\xfc
    \\xfc\\xfd/b\\xfd\\xfc.

   \\xfc\\xfdli\\xfd\\xfc

Version 1.0 of Lingvoj Ontology is used, declaring a Lingvo Class, its attributes such as ISO 639 codes and the way to link languages to FOAF resources (properties having Lingvo class as rdfs:range). Some examples of the use of those properties are available in my FOAF profile.

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Openness: OPEN

• License: not specified but Open Data logo prominently displayed and part of the Linked Data effort so assumed to be open.
• Access: Good.
  • bulk. (download of rdf file)