Re: Translations of annotation in SDWWG vocabularies

Hi Frans

at this stage I have no comments to process on QB4ST, I have been looking
into some specific cases where we need to describe hierarchies (year,month,
day) and Country,state,etc - but have pretty much decided these will not be
formally part of QB4ST as its "bigger that spatial" - and use an
informative example - so as far as I am concerned I'd appreciate a
translation, for the labels and comments in QB4ST (not very many!) and use
this as a practical review of the wording - i.e. if the English isnt
working, happy to iterate quickly to get a better one and do the
translation.

Rob

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 at 00:19 Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:

> Hello Rob, Kerry, Krzysztof, Danh, Armin, Simon, Chris,
>
> This is a message to all editors of vocabularies that are produced as part
> of SDWWG work.
>
> One of the requirements for our output
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/sdw-ucr/#MultilingualSupport> is to try to have
> multilingual annotation in our vocabularies. In order to make that happen,
> I was assigned action-223
> <https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/actions/223>. The idea is that
> once the standard annotations in English are being made available in Dutch
> too, national prides will play up and other translations will follow. The
> translations will make our vocabularies easier to understand for people
> that are not fluent in English and will allow the annotations to be used
> directly in non-English user interfaces. The translation process could also
> serve as a sanity check for the proposed English annotation, because
> understanding is a prerequisite for translation.
>
> The right moment to work on translations seems to be when the English
> annotation are considered stable. Hopefully that will be some time before
> the SDWWG finishes, to allow for time to do the translating work.
>
> As far as I know, we have the following vocabularies:
>
>    - OWL Time
>    - QB4ST
>    - SSN (likely to be two separate vocabularies: SOSA and SSN)
>
> So my question to the vocabulary editors is: can you give an estimate of
> when translation work can begin?
>
> Regards,
> Frans
>
>