- From: makxdekkers via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:34:02 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
To me, this seems to be a comment addressed to DCMI. DCAT just reuses/imports the property `dct:language`. The DCMI term is aimed at providing a way to advertise a language used in the described resource by linking to a resource (through its URI) that represents that language. In Linked Data terms, one can resolve that link and find out more about that language. E.g. resolving http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/en.html or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1860 gives you information about the language, e.g. its relation to other languages, its name in other languages, places where it is spoken etc. BCP47 is a list of tags with a powerful mechanism to specify regional variants, different scripts etc. but there are, as far as I know, no URIs for all the potential BCP47 tags, so they cannot be used for `dct:language`. However, the full power of BCP47 is available for tagging any text field in metadata and data as specified at https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-Graph-Literal. Maybe there could be a statement in the DCAT specification somewhere that encourages the use of language tags on all pieces of text in metadata and data? -- GitHub Notification of comment by makxdekkers Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/959#issuecomment-505799024 using your GitHub account
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