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- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:40 +0000
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ISSUE-27 (format): URIs for file formats [DCAT] http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/27 Raised by: Phil Archer On product: DCAT DCAT uses dcterms:format thus: :distribution dcterms:format [ a dcterms:IMT; rdf:value "text/csv"; rdfs:label "CSV" ] Is this the best we can do? There are alternatives: 1. Ed Summers' work on providing URIs for MIME types [1] could potentially be moved in to W3C space by this WG. 2. Ivan Herman's work on providing file types [2] could be extended ad hoc to provide a stable set of URIs for file formats that includes MIME type as one property but allows for unambiguous naming of multiple formats with a single MIME type 3. Stick with what we have. Of these, 3 is the path of least resistance, 2 is my preferred option. This is because, as Ivan points out, the MIME type doesn't always tell you everything you need to know. It's not that big a task and we could create a few key ones fairly quickly. [1] http://mediatypes.appspot.com/ [2] http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/
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