- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:21:31 +0000
- To: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-gld-wg@w3.org
On 22 Nov 2011, at 15:06, John Erickson wrote: > RE adding it in, I would be happy to (please point me there). http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/ Click on Issues » Create in the sidebar. I guess you need to leave the Product field open for now, as this hasn't been set up yet. Best, Richard > > 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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