- From: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:49:39 +0000
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, swick@w3.org
At 12:26 31/10/03 +0000, Brian McBride wrote: >My goal here is to ensure that we have an appropriate document at the end >of the RDF namespace URI when we go to PR. > >Graham Klyne wrote: (Actually, Patrick wrote this... I just agreed) >>>Would it not make more sense to have distinct schemas for >>>each languages labels. I.e. >>> >>>rdf_fr.rdf >>>rdf_sp.rdf >>>rdf_ge.rdf >>>rdf_fi.rdf >>>etc. > >I don't think so. How would an application find them? How would an application find *any* new information that appears after the original schema document is published? How does one draw the line between what languages are included and what are not. These are problems that the sweb will have to address in any case, probably in numerous ways. Actually, where Patrick wrote "different schemas", I don't think the language-neutral schema information should be duplicated -- I read the comment as suggesting that the separate files have just the alternative language annotations, and could be read in addition to the primary schema file. I would imagine that the various language document would link back to the original schema in some way (<> rdfs:augments <SchemaURI>?) so that semantic web crawlers would be able to build appropriate indexes. (I don't feel strongly either way about the original suggestion, unless this is likely to delay publication while we wait for the appropriate language text to be available.) #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact
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