Re: i18n (was: horizontal review)

We could check how the R2RML spec proceeded with this.
Except for the relational DB they have as input the process is quite
similar with SHACL.

Besides sh:message, sh:name, ... the language constraint components could
be in scope

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the links, Sandro.
>
> On the i18n topic, I have browsed through the self-review
>
> https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-specs?collapse
>
> I don't see how any of this applies to us. We are defining an RDF
> vocabulary that is used by machines. So all our i18n issues are handled (or
> not) by RDF. Of course every RDF node in a shapes graph may have labels in
> multiple languages, and that language can be explicitly stated using the
> @en tags. In our own TTL file (which is not normative) we use @en labels,
> BTW.
>
> A special mention should probably go to sh:message, which is a mechanism
> to report violations back to users. Our design explicitly allows those
> messages to be in multiple languages. See the sections on sh:message.
> Likewise our own annotation properties sh:name and sh:description.
>
> But most of what SHACL does happens on the server, invisible to users.
> There is also no standardized user interface to SHACL.
>
> Should we just go ahead and contact the I18n group at W3C with this input?
>
>     https://www.w3.org/International/review-request
>
> We really ought to do something about this process requirement soon.
>
> Holger
>
>
> On 23/02/2017 3:28, Sandro Hawke wrote:
>
>> Overview and guidance on horizontal review:
>> https://www.w3.org/wiki/DocumentReview
>>
>> Most urgent, I think, would be (under Review Resources >
>> Internationalization): https://www.w3.org/International/review-request
>>
>> After the Security & Privacy questionnaire is done, and there's a draft
>> Considerations section in the spec, I'd send it to the Security & Privacy
>> folks.
>>
>> I expect it'll be out-of-scope for a11y, but it's still good form to send
>> it to them for review, as well.
>>
>>     -- Sandro
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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