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[protege-discussion] protege with other languages
Timothy Redmond
tredmond at stanford.edu
Sat Apr 17 01:45:32 PDT 2010
>
> but my test ontology
> http://earth.jscc.ru/ontologies/Ontology_sanscrit.owl (I am sorry for
> "c")
> throws exception on this way:
Funny - I didn't have this problem. I looks like it is showing
sanscrit. (I don't know any sanscrit but it looks convincing.)
-Timothy
On 04/17/2010 12:12 AM, Alex Shkotin wrote:
> I am not sure if Manjula has the same,
>
> but my test ontology
> http://earth.jscc.ru/ontologies/Ontology_sanscrit.owl (I am sorry for
> "c")
> throws exception on this way:
>
> in Protege 4
> 1. Open "OWL ontology from URI"
> http://earth.jscc.ru/ontologies/Ontology_sanscrit.owl. = OK.
> 2. go to "Classes" tab and double click "Thing". = I got exception and
> interface broken.
>
> to see Sanskrit letters in this ontology use
> http://pellet.owldl.com/owlsight/
>
> Is there something wrong with Sanskrit? As with Russian it is OK.
>
> Alex
>
> 2010/4/17 manjula wijewickrema <manjula53 at gmail.com
> <mailto:manjula53 at gmail.com>>
>
> Hi Timothy,
> Thanks for your reply. I will try to follow your guidence.
> Manjula
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Timothy Redmond
> <tredmond at stanford.edu <mailto:tredmond at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
> On 04/16/2010 02:06 AM, manjula wijewickrema wrote:
>> Dear Timothy,
>> Thanks a lot for your reply. It courages me to study
>> furthermore. The last issue, I have asked is, if Protege
>> supports to any other languages (say Sinhala) then what is
>> the procedure we can follow to use Sinhala in order to build
>> ontologies in Protege (just instead of default English language)?
>
> Actually there is something else to say and I should have
> mentioned this in my earlier post. It is very likely that you
> want all your concepts to have both english and sinhala names
> (and perhaps some other languages also). In addition
> depending on who is viewing the ontology, you may want it to
> be seen in whatever language they use.
>
> There is a standard accepted way to do this. Instead of
> expecting the concepts in the ontology to be viewed by their
> resource name, you give each concept an rdfs:label annotation
> value. Users are then expected to use the rdfs:label field to
> view the name of each concept in the ontology. Each
> rdfs:label annotation can include a language specification.
> So for Sinhala you would use "sin" to indicate the language.
> For english you would use en. Thus different people with
> different default languages can see the same ontology in their
> language.
>
> This way of writing an ontology is fully supported in Protege
> 3 and 4 and will be understood by owl tools in general.
>
> -Timothy
>
>
>
>
>> Are there any references (i.e. Wiki pages or something else)
>> which have described these kinds of scenarios?
>> Thanx in advance
>> Manjula
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Timothy Redmond
>> <tredmond at stanford.edu <mailto:tredmond at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> A question very similar to this was answered very
>> recently. Sinhala is included in the unicode standard
>> (chart attached). Unicode is fully supported by Protege.
>> There are a couple of system specific issues that come up
>> though. There is the issue of telling the operating
>> system to support sinhala keyboard input. I am able to
>> do this on my linux machine here but I can't speak for
>> your system. I have done similar things on os x and
>> windows machines.
>>
>> Finally there is the question of whether your java
>> installation includes all the needed fonts. This isn't
>> working so well on my linux machine but I would bet that
>> windows and os x machines will do fine. This last issue
>> is something that I don't understand so well at the
>> moment. I would like to know how to fix this.
>>
>> -Timothy
>>
>> manjula wijewickrema wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I am a new one leyman for Protege. Is there any
>> possibility of useing Sinhala language (Sinhala comes
>> with Unicode) to make ontologies with Protege. If so
>> how can I change the language to Sinhala? Is there
>> any material to refer?
>> Thanks,
>> Manjula.
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