On 5 May 2013 20:48, Mathieu Stumpf <psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Le dimanche 05 mai 2013 à 16:28 +0200, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt a >> The ontology is maintained by a community that everyone can join at >> http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ . An overview of the current class >> hierarchy is here: >> http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/ontology/classes/ . You're more >> than welcome to help! I think talk pages are not used enough on the >> mappings wiki, so if you have ideas, misgivings or questions about the >> DBpedia ontology, the place to go is probably the mailing list: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > > Do you maintain several "ontologies" in parallel? Otherwise, how do you > plane to avoid a "cultural bias", and how do you think it may impact the > other projects? I mean, if you try to establish "one semantic hierarchy > to rule them all", couldn't it arise cultural diversity concerns?
We maintain only one version of the ontology. We have a pretty diverse community, so I hope the editors will take care of that. So far, the ontology does have a Western bias though, more or less like the English Wikipedia or the current list of Wikidata properties. JC > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
