Glottolog/Langdoc: Defining dialects, languages, and language families as 
collections of resources

Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald

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Glottolog/Langdoc: Defining dialects, languages, and language families as collections of resources

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Nordhoff, Sebastian
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Hammarström, Harald
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Nordhoff, S., & Hammarström, H. (2011). Glottolog/Langdoc: Defining dialects, languages, and language families as collections of resources. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 (LISC2011), Bonn, Germany, October 24, 2011.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-78B6-3

Abstract

This paper describes the Glottolog/Langdoc project, an at- tempt to provide near-total bibliographical coverage of descriptive re- sources to the world's languages. Every reference is treated as a resource, as is every \languoid"[1]. References are linked to the languoids which they describe, and languoids are linked to the references described by them. Family relations between languoids are modeled in SKOS, as are relations across dierent classications of the same languages. This setup allows the representation of languoids as collections of references, render- ing the question of the denition of entities like `Scots', `West-Germanic' or `Indo-European' more empirical.