[protege-discussion] protege with other languages

[Timothy Redmond]

>
> 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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