- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:34:17 +0000
- To: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-gld-wg@w3.org
John, On 15 Nov 2011, at 16:38, John Erickson wrote: > I tweeted this earlier, but I'll go old skool too: > > Does anyone know why dct:language is not part of #DCAT <http://t.co/loHgJejt> > > @cygri any thoughts? It didn't come up enough in our original review of data catalogs. That review was very much focused on English-language catalogs because that's pretty much all that was around at that time. With Open Data spreading to more and more countries, and aggregated catalogs becoming more prevalent, I think there's a good case for adding it. John would you mind raising an issue for this in the tracker? Best, Richard > > The reason I'm asking is mostly curiosity; we're refining our IOGDS > <http://t.co/7HPOldN> and will be adding dct:language the Catalog > level, first for statistics purposes and then as a browsable facet. > dct:language is in our metadata model, but as an "enhancement" that > gets added after scraping and first-pass conversion. The person doing > that work has noted the predominant languages (approx 16 across 116 > catalogs from over 36 countries and international organizations) but > we don't have it "in the graph" (yet)... > > -- > John S. Erickson, Ph.D. > Director, Web Science Operations > Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) > <http://tw.rpi.edu> <olyerickson@gmail.com> > Twitter & Skype: olyerickson >
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