Re: Question on expressing translations of terms

Not sure I understand your definition of a term, but the ability to handle
names, or any other text based properties, of things in multiple languages
is already possible:

{

  *"@context"*: “http://schema.org/”,

  *"@id"*: "http://example.com/my-term-data-base-entry-1",

  *"@type"*: "schema:Thing",

  *"schema:name"*: [

    {

      *"@language"*: "en",

      *"@value"*: "screwdriver"

    },

    {

      *"@language"*: "de",

      *"@value"*: "schraubendreher"

    }

  ]

}


or in RDFa:


 <div typeof="schema:Thing"
about="http://example.com/my-term-data-base-entry-1">
    <div property="schema:name" xml:lang="en" content="screwdriver"></div>
    <div property="schema:name" xml:lang="de" content="schraubendreher"></div>
  </div>


~Richard

Richard Wallis
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On 17 March 2016 at 09:04, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It seems that schema.org as of writing would not allow to express the
> relation for terms „A is a translation from B“ or „A is an abbreviation
> from B“. It is already possible to express that A is translation of B, see
>
> http://bib.schema.org/translationOfWork
>
> but this is specific to works, not translated terms. Would the below make
> sense? It is adapted from
> https://schema.org/translator
>
> note: schema:Term and schema:translation do not exist in schema.org, I
> made them up for the example.
>
> {
>   "@id": "http://example.com/my-term-data-base-entry-1",
>   "@type": "schema:Term",
>   "schema:inLanguage": "en",
>   "schema:name": "screwdriver",
>   "schema:translation": {
>     "@id": "http://example.com/my-term-data-base-entry-2",
>     "schema:inLanguage": "de",
>     "schema:name": "schraubendreher"
>   }
> }
>
> - Felix
>