Done (Was Re: DCAT turtle)

Hi all,

I am very grateful to Fadi, Boris, Marios and Ghislain for their 
translations of the DCAT turtle file which is now in place at 
http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat.ttl. Please check, including the metadata. If 
I can improve this, please shout.

John asked the perfectly reasonable question: how can we keep these 
languages in sync? I guess the short answer is that we can do it as long 
as there is willingness to do so. The terms are defined in a doc in /TR 
space - so that doc will never* disappear. The terms in the Turtle file 
match those and we'll never* delete them. We may deprecate them, yes; we 
may clarify, but not change, the semantics; and we may add new terms 
(the proposed Data on the Web BP WG is specifically chartered to do so 
for example). If new terms are added and we can't draw on our friendly 
neighbourhood speakers of Arabic, French, Greek and Spanish - well, they 
won't be localised. But I suggest we cross that bridge when we come to it.

What's good now is that we have a schema that matches the spec and an 
example of a very multilingual approach, the value of which we should be 
able to assess in the coming months.

Cheers

Phil

*Never is a very long time. I mean W3C has a public commitment on this 
and that for as long as it exists, and for as long as its 4 hosts exist, 
the files in /ns will be preserved. Now, when the Web disappears, as it 
surely will do some time between now and the heat death of the Universe, 
well... we tried folks.

On 21/09/2013 09:10, Phil Archer wrote:
> 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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