Lin|gu|is|tik: Building the Linguist’s Pathway to Bibliographies, Libraries, Language Resources and Linked Open Data

Lin|gu|is|tik: Building the Linguist’s Pathway to Bibliographies, Libraries, Language Resources and Linked Open Data C. Chiarcos, C. F¨ath, H. Renner-Westermann, F. Abromeit, V. Dimitrova Goethe Universit¨at Frankfurt am Main, Germany {chiarcos@em, faeth@em, h.renner-westermann@ub, abromeit@em, v.dimitrova@ub}.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract This paper introduces a novel research tool for the field of linguistics: The Lin|gu|is|tik web portal provides a virtual library which offers scientific information on every linguistic subject. It comprises selected internet sources and databases as well as catalogues for linguistic literature, and addresses an interdisciplinary audience. The virtual library is the most recent outcome of the Special Subject Collection Linguistics of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and also integrates the knowledge accumulated in the Bibliography of Linguistic Literature. In addition to the portal, we describe long-term goals and prospects with a special focus on ongoing efforts regarding an extension towards integrating language resources and Linguistic Linked Open Data. Keywords: virtual library, Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLL), linguistic terminology, Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD), Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation (OLiA) Figure 1: The extended catalogues search of the Lin|gu|is|tik portal in English 4463 1. Introduction Libraries have always been the basis for scientific progress and proliferation, and the interlibrary loan system (ILL) accelerated the scientific breakthroughs since 1900, even before the creation of online catalogues. After WWII, the German research community benefited from the combina- tion of the ILL and the establishment of Special Subject Collections (SSG, Sondersammelgebiete) at different uni- versity libraries. These were designed to support the ac- quisition of the entire international literature for every spe- cific field of research (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2015). In the digital age, the amount of information col- lected over more than 60 years is increasingly being made available over the web. The Lin|gu|is|tik web portal1 (henceforth Lin|gu|is|tik portal) is an outcome of the Spe- cial Subject Collection General Linguistics2 hosted since the beginning of the 50s till recently by the University Li- brary J.C. Senckenberg in Frankfurt (Renner-Westermann, 2013). The Lin|gu|is|tik portal’s main modules, functions and ob- jectives are described in Section 2. Section 3 outlines the role of the Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLL) within the portal. The benefits of the Linked Open Data (LOD) technology in the context of a virtual library are in- troduced in Section 4. The main part of the paper (Sect. 5) addresses the ongoing efforts towards an LOD interface. Starting with the general approach towards the connection of the Lin|gu|is|tik portal with the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud, we describe the conceptual and techni- cal implementation with special focus on the linking of the BLL Thesaurus with the Ontologies of Linguistic Annota- tion (OLiA), and the development of a search algorithm and data storage solutions. 2. A Virtual Library for Linguistics The Lin|gu|is|tik portal, freely accessible under www.linguistik.de, represents a virtual library with an integrated access to scientific information on every subject of linguistics, ranging from general and compar- ative linguistics to larger European languages through to small, threatened and ancient languages. Funded by the DFG, the Lin|gu|is|tik portal …

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