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Re: ISSUE-12 (valuesForDataFormat): What values to use to describe formats of dcat:Distribution? [DCAT]

From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:06:10 -0500
Message-ID: <CAC1Gg8S7OTJC-9RnE8ZvzX3PQ7eGT+irRMi0iUUu_77tzG-jvw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Sarven Capadisli <sarven.capadisli@deri.org>
Cc: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, Government Linked Data Working Group WG <public-gld-wg@w3.org>, Government Linked Data Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> 
>> The Right Thing to do would be to get IETF to mint URIs for all media
>> types, and get ESRI to register a media type for their file format, etc.
>> This may not be feasible.

...or maybe we could just follow the same, de facto convention we've
been following of using URIs from A Certain Third party:

http://dbpedia.org/resource/TIFF
http://dbpedia.org/resource/JPEG
http://dbpedia.org/resource/GZIP

...etc. ;)

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John S. Erickson, Ph.D.
Director, Web Science Operations
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