Re: Canonical URIs for regional variants in LOD datasets

Hi Gerard, 

> Le 16 sept. 2017 à 19:33, Gerard de Melo <gdm@gmx.net> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Ghislain,
> 
> Good to see you here... Was great hanging out at ISWC in Japan last year!

Yeah! We have to find a way to meet again, maybe in Vienna? 
> 
>> I am looking for canonical URIs to represent regional variants in a
>> multilingual dataset. 
>> Fo example, I want to be able to use all the variants of Spanish say
>> es-XX(e.g., es-MX for Mexican variant for Spanish), or English (e.g.,
>> en-CA).
>> I was looking around, specially in the Library of Congress endpoint [1],
>> but I am not able to have such URIs for geographical/regional variants. 
> 
> For many years, long-time W3C Fellow Felix Sasaki has been suggesting
> that regional language varieties be added to Lexvo.org [1]. Just 2
> months ago, we happened to finally implement IETF BCP 47-based language
> varieties (drawing in part on the IANA registry), though the new data is
> not yet live on Lexvo.org. Send me a PM if you'd like to have a dump
> with the relevant IDs.

Great! that’s a very great nice! 
I send you a PM message then.. 

Cheers,
Ghislain 


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