Re: Question on expressing translations of terms

Yes, I tend to agree with Chaals & Richard here: for translated labels
of structured data vocabulary terms (schema.org's and others), we
should look towards the underlying W3C standards: RDF/S and perhaps
sometimes SKOS, SKOS-XL. It is usual to stick to a single URL for
types and properties rather than proliferate them by having different
URLs for each language.


Here is an example btw of RDFa+RDFS definitions that do this, from
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/blob/sdo-deimos/data/l10n/zh-cn/schema_org_zhcn.html

<div typeof="rdfs:Class" resource="http://schema.org/Audience">
<span class="h" property="rdfs:label">Audience</span>
<span class="h" property="rdfs:label" xml:lang="zh-cn">听众</span>
<span property="rdfs:comment">Intended audience for an item, i.e. the
group for whom the item was created.</span>
<span property="rdfs:comment" xml:lang="zh-cn">听众，观众, 读者</span>
<span>Subclass of: <a property="rdfs:subClassOf"
href="http://schema.org/Intangible">Intangible</a></span>
</div>

Does this approach do what you have in mind, Felix?

Dan

On 17 March 2016 at 10:56, Richard Wallis
<richard.wallis@dataliberate.com> wrote:
> 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
> Founder, Data Liberate
> http://dataliberate.com
> Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
> Twitter: @rjw
>
> 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
>
>

Received on Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:39:12 UTC