DCAT turtle

Fadi, vocab folks,

A PhD researcher from KU Leuven, Diederik Tirry, brought to my attention 
this week that the turtle file for DCAT hasn't been updated in line with 
the /TR doc (oops!) so, while on a plane yesterday, I thought I'd see if 
I can fix that. The attached file is the result. But I'd like to do a 
sanity check before I put it in place.

What I did:

- Went through the current spec 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-dcat-20130801/) and made sure there 
was an entry for each dcat: term, updating and adding as necessary.

- added language tags to all text (seriously, Fadi, when you get a 
minute, can you do an Arabic translation please? Richard - German? Bart 
- NL etc.)

- I considered duplicating the English language labels and comments 
without language tags but decided against - what are other people's 
views on this?

- The turtle retains all the terms from previous versions but the labels 
and comments all indicate that they are now deprecated. Should we add 
machine-readable statuses to terms? If so, how? I know of two ways: 
using  http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns#term_status which is 
in line with FOAF/VOAF and takes a literal, or using ADMS which takes a 
skos:Concept. Does it make sense to add a status of 'deprecated' to some 
terms and not 'stable' to others?

- I put in a load of metadata about creators and contributors - it could 
probably do with cleaning up/being done in a more consistent manner. 
Advice welcome.


As you might imagine, from my POV this is about more than DCAT - this is 
about thinking about how we should do this for vocabs in /ns space in 
general.

Phil.

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Phil Archer
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