ISSUE-26: Range of dcterms:language is a resource, not literal

dct:language range

Range of dcterms:language is a resource, not literal

State:
CLOSED
Product:
DCAT
Raised by:
Phil Archer
Opened on:
2012-02-09
Description:
DCAT uses dcterms:language as a property of dcat:Catalog and dcat:Dataset. In both cases we state that the range is:

"rdfs:Literal a string representing the code of the language as described in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt"

This is incorrect according to the DC spec which gives the range as http://purl.org/dc/terms/LinguisticSystem - i.e. a resource.

We have a number of options:
- create a subproperty and define its range as being a literal;
- identify a set of URIs that end with the RFC3066 codes (analogous to http://dbpedia.org/page/ISO_3166-2:XX for countries);
- create such a set (this could be seen as being very useful by others!);
- stop worrying and just use a literal and have done with it.

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Related emails:
  1. Re: [dcat] issue 26 - range of dcterms:language - proposal (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2013-01-31)
  2. RE: [dcat] issue 26 - range of dcterms:language - proposal (from mail@makxdekkers.com on 2013-01-31)
  3. [dcat] issue 26 - range of dcterms:language - proposal (from fadi.maali@deri.org on 2013-01-31)
  4. Re: Resolving ISSUE-26 (range of dcterms:language) (from konstant@iit.demokritos.gr on 2012-10-29)
  5. Re: Resolving ISSUE-26 (range of dcterms:language) (from konstant@iit.demokritos.gr on 2012-10-29)
  6. Re: Resolving ISSUE-26 (range of dcterms:language) (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-10-29)
  7. Re: Resolving ISSUE-26 (range of dcterms:language) (from konstant@iit.demokritos.gr on 2012-10-28)
  8. Resolving ISSUE-26 (range of dcterms:language) (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-10-28)
  9. Re: issues related to DCAT (from fadi.maali@deri.org on 2012-10-24)
  10. Re: ISO 639 Cookbook was ... LD? algorithm and questions. (from konstant@iit.demokritos.gr on 2012-03-27)
  11. Re: ISSUE-26 (dct:language range): Range of dcterms:language is a resource, not literal [DCAT] (from konstant@iit.demokritos.gr on 2012-03-02)
  12. Re: ISSUE-26 (dct:language range): Range of dcterms:language is a resource, not literal [DCAT] (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-02-09)
  13. ISSUE-26 (dct:language range): Range of dcterms:language is a resource, not literal [DCAT] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-02-09)

Related notes:

closed as agreed on the F2F meeting https://www.w3.org/2013/meeting/gld/2013-04-11

Fadi Maali, 18 Apr 2013, 14:22:06

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