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

Thanks, Ivan!

Cheers,
	Michael
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> From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
> Date: 10 February 2012 15:56:53 GMT
> To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
> Cc: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>, Government Linked Data Working Group  
> WG <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: ISSUE-12 (valuesForDataFormat): What values to use to  
> describe   formats of dcat:Distribution? [DCAT]
>
> If the file formats are really properly defined then yes, this can  
> be used. I am not sure how this answers Phil's issue with dbpedia,  
> though. But I probably miss the background here.
>
> Ivan
>
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 16:50 , Michael Hausenblas wrote:
>
>>
>> I wonder if we can mint something over in http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/ 
>>  - Ivan?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> 	Michael
>> --
>> Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow
>> LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre
>> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
>> NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway
>> Ireland, Europe
>> Tel. +353 91 495730
>> http://linkeddata.deri.ie/
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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. ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>>
>>> Phil Archer
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>>>
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>>> @philarcher1
>>>
>>
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