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

I wonder if we can mint something over in http://www.w3.org/ns/ 
formats/ - Ivan?

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On 10 Feb 2012, at 15:19, Phil Archer wrote:

> I'm getting some push-back from gov data publishers on using DBpedia  
> sadly (it's third party, it's not real, it's not stable, not like  
> all our wonderful government department Web sites that sometimes  
> stay on line for whole months!). The PROMOM effort that Dave has  
> highlighted looks like the kind of thing they'd like more -  
> government agency to government agency - as long as there's no ".uk"  
> anywhere in the URIs I guess.
>
> How about "use a stable URI scheme for file formats if available,  
> falling back to the MIME type if not available" ?
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
> On 10/02/2012 15:06, John Erickson wrote:
>>>> 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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