Hi Harry,
[This is slightly tangential to your question, but relevant to our
discussion yesterday, so I've changed the subject line....]
When you visited us back in June, I remember we talked a little bit about
the multilingual aspect of the definitions in the RDF Schemas, and you and
Andy Powell pointed me at the example in Stefan Kokkelink and Roland
Schwanzl's "Expressing DCQ in RDF" draft.
http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/projects/dcqual/qual21.3.1/qual3-5-1
.html
i.e. example 4.2 where they express a value for dc:subject first in English
and then in German.
You and Andy pointed out to me that, as they argue there, using xml:lang is
not an option because it is ignored by applications at the RDF level (like
EOR).
So am I correct in thinking this is what will have to be done for the RDFS
DC namespace schemas?
e.g. (I parsed this with SIRPAC but need to check the triples more
carefully!) something along the lines of
http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lispj/dc-multi/dcsimple/dctitle.xml
(I coded the dcq:RFC1766 elements "out of line" so that they can be pointed
to from each dc:language element.)
I guess this could (should?) be managed as two physically separate schemas
e.g.
http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lispj/dc-multi/dcsimple/dctitle-en.xml
http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lispj/dc-multi/dcsimple/dctitle-fr.xml
but this will then break the neat one-to-one correspondence between
namespace URI and RDFS XML file, won't it?
Pete
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