- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:06:43 -0500
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: public-gld-wg@w3.org
RE adding it in, I would be happy to (please point me there). FWIW, in the 116 catalogs whose DCAT-ish metadata we've aggregated in IOGDS, we're seeing around 16 languages. That is not definitive; since we are "scraping," it is a judgement call. This is why we need authoritative sources generated catalog metadata! ;) Also: the advice I've given our team is that dct:language should be at both the catalog and dataset level --- priority is the catalog --- and should allow multiple values (we've done the same thing with dct:subject when converting Data.gov datasets with lists of "keywords," one subject -> keyword). I'll note all of this in the tracker as you've requested... John On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- 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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