[sdw] Correct non-english labels in OWL-Time RDF representation (#1181)

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== Correct non-english labels in OWL-Time RDF representation ==
Originally mentioned by @chris-little in https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1173#issuecomment-652525127 

Nobu and Kyoung-sook made suggestions about the Japanaese and Korean language tags which imply that the original tags may have been misconstrued. To make sensible corrections, I need to understand the use and intent of the multiple language tags - that is, the skos:prefLabels. My onoological ignorance is now showing.

DayofWeek is tied to the Gregorian Calendar and the labels like below are not problematic (though Korean is missing):
:Friday
rdf:type :DayOfWeek ;
rdfs:label "Friday"@en ;
skos:prefLabel "Freitag"@de ;
skos:prefLabel "Friday"@en ;
...
skos:prefLabel "星期五"@zh ;
skos:prefLabel "金曜日"@ja ;

The durations unitSecond, unitMinute, unitHour, unitDay, unitWeek, unitMonth and unitYear have been translated very literally into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Hence the one or yi meaning a 'unit'. All the other skos:prefLabels in the other languages are just the name, like a Unit of Measure. Is this a good way to think of these labels? Would they be used with numeric values?

If so, then unitYear skos:prefLabel "一年"@ja ; used to express three years, would end up as the rather strange "三 一年" (3 unitYear) rather than "三 年" (3 year) .

:unitYear
rdf:type :TemporalUnit ;
rdfs:label "Year (unit of temporal duration)"@en ;
skos:prefLabel "1 년"@kr ;
skos:prefLabel "一年"@ja ;
skos:prefLabel "Jahr"@de ;
skos:prefLabel "rok"@pl

I hope my concerns make sense.

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Received on Wednesday, 1 July 2020 22:30:47 UTC