- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:41:40 +0100
- To: Stasinos Konstantopoulos <konstant@iit.demokritos.gr>
- Cc: public-gld-wg@w3.org
Stasinos, is there a concrete proposal to modify DCAT (or some other GLD deliverable) in there? Thanks, Richard On 28 Oct 2012, at 22:43, Stasinos Konstantopoulos wrote: > Richard, all, > > given the recent popularity that LoC URIs seems to be gaining, I would > like to remind the group of my earlier proposal [1] that, besides > advocating LoC URIs, also addresses situations where no URI exists for > the particular language variant one needs while at the same time > allowing applications that are not aware of/interested in such fine > distinctions to retrieve the LoC URI that most closely fits. > > Best, > Stasinos > > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-wg/2012Mar/0098.html > > > On 28 October 2012 18:26, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote: >> After further off-line discussion with Makx, Dave and Phil, I retract my earlier proposal to use xsd:language-datatyped literals as values for dcterms:language. Here is a new proposal: >> >> [[ >> PROPOSAL: In DCAT-conformant data, values of dcterms:language MUST be members of some subclass, and SHOULD be ISO-639 URIs as defined by the Library of Congress in http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1.html and http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2.html . The iso639-1 codes should be preferred, and iso639-2 codes used only when no iso639-1 code is available for a language. This resolves ISSUE-26 >> ]] >> >> The reasons are: 1. The value space of xsd:language is defined as a subset of the lexical space. This means that xsd:language-typed literals denote strings, not languages. 2. The Library of Congress is one of the registration authorities for ISO-639, and this gives them excellent credentials as maintainers of a URI scheme for ISO-639 codes. >> >> Here are some example statements, for English and Cheyenne: >> >> <xxx> dcterms:language <http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/en>. >> >> <xxx> dcterms:language <http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/chy>. >> >> Best, >> Richard >
Received on Monday, 29 October 2012 06:43:25 UTC