Re: RDF Schema and Internationalization

David Pratt wrote:

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>  I am not clear about how to deal with internationalize data however.  
> Let's use a product as an example.  If it has properties (predicates) 
> such as a hasSKU, hasTitle, hasDescription, the title and description 
> properties could be in different languages. How does one deal with 
> internationalization in the schema.  Do I have to create properties like 
> hasTitleEn, hasTitleFr, hasTitleEs  etc. so my schema will handle 
> multiple languagesor is there another way. It seems this approach would 
> not be a very dynamic and involve much duplication in my schema which is 
> already large. I would appreciate pointers on what I should do.  Many 
> thanks.

Let hasTitle etc. allow for multiple values.

Then have an English value, a French, and so on.

When rendering for humans select the value appropriate for their 
language preferences.

Since this is potentially bloaty in the case of a user-agent that has 
sent an accept-languages header tou could also restrict the values 
transmitted in a given transfer to only those appropriate.

Received on Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:49:57 UTC