[Clipart] Offering Clipart Gallery in other languages

[Francis Bond]

G'day,


>> Open Clipart Gallery is an invaluable resource and a very useful tool.
>> It's a pity it's only available in English for now. I think the basic
>> interfase should be translated, and each version should be set with
>> native language tags. E.g. MS Office clipart is very and widely used
>> in my country, from business advertising to students' homeworks. It
>> would be great if they could have accesss to Open Clipart which is
>> obviously faaar more comprehensive and dynamic, but many people speaks
>> little or no English at all.
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> true
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>> Are OCAL administrators and community members already working on this?
>> Whether that's the case or not, as an English/Spanish translator I
>> offer my service.

I think adding metatags in other languages would be great, and have
already started to do so for Japanese (via WordNet).

I would like to suggest adding a language tag to the keword metatag, either
explicitly within the tag:
        <dc:subject>
          <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li lang='en'>mammal</rdf:li>
            <rdf:li>feline</rdf:li>
          </rdf:Bag>
or implicitly in the text:
           <rdf:li>en:mammal</rdf:li>

then we could include different language tags within the actual images.

I could supply Spanish, Catalan and Japanese for around a thousand
images from the old download (v0.18) if anyone is interested.  I would
be happy to do so for the current images if only someone would produce
a download collection that included the metatags.  The translations
are automatically disambiguated using the metatags, so I can't do it
without them...

Yours,

-- 
Francis Bond <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
NICT Computational Linguistics Group