Early DRAFT
This is draft work, an effort to create an OBO-compliant, BFO-based, reusable, maintained ontology based on ISO-639. The ontology represents each language in ISO-639-3, ISO-639-2, and ISO-639-1 as a class.
If successful, we hope to register the work as http://obofoundry.org/ontology/lang
For background regarding this work, see Early Thoughts on Representing Languages and Language Capabilities
The src/ontology/templates directory contains data from the ISO 639 registration authorities used to make templates for the OBO robot tool.
The src/ontology/i18n directory contains assertions for adding definitions and labels in additional languages to the Language Ontology.
The latest version of the ontology can always be found at:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/lang.owl
(note this will not show up until the request has been approved by obofoundry.org)
Editors of this ontology should use the edit version, src/ontology/lang-edit.owl
The Language Ontology Wiki contains additional information, including project intent and goals, usage, repository structure, development, build, and release processes.
Please use this GitHub repository's Issue tracker to request new terms/classes, other ontology or documentation improvements, or to report errors or concerns related to the ontology.
This work is licensed CC0. Attribution is polite, not required. To cite this work, consider using the text below:
VIVO Project (2020) Language Ontology, https://github.com/vivo-community/language-ontology
This is the work of the VIVO Ontology Interest Group, creating ontologies for the representation of scholarship. Please consider supporting the work through membership in the VIVO project, and/or as an ontology developer.
This ontology repository was created using the Ontology Development Kit (ODK)