Hi Pete,
I have been struggling with this same issue. I would prefer to maintain one
version of the schema and do the translation at the presentation level
(using property files). The (long-term) problem I see with this is that it
will limit our ability to allow users to search the registry using their
native language. We need advice from Shigeo Sugimoto. I am writing him now
and will copy the listserv on the email.
Best Regards,
Harry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Johnston [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:38 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Multilingual RDF schemas for DC (Was Re:
> Internationalization)
>
>
> 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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