Building Linked Open Data of Life Science Dictionary

There is a growing need for efficient and integrated access to databases provided by diverse institutions. Using a linked data design pattern allows the diverse data on the Internet to be linked effectively and accessed efficiently by computers. In addition, providing a dictionary to translate words into another language in Resource Description Framework (RDF) is useful to cross a language barrier such as English and Japanese when we want to access datasets in multiple languages. Here, we built a Linked Open Dataset of the Life Science Dictionary (LSD) with links to DBpedia. LSD consists of various lexical resources including English-Japanese / Japanese-English dictionaries and a thesaurus using the MeSH vocabulary. The latest version of LSD contains 110 thousand English and 120 thousand Japanese terms. Since we believe that LSD is a useful language resource in the life science domain to process Japanese and English text data seamlessly, linking LSD to DBpedia enables us to find related knowledge more easily and therefore contributes to the life science research community.