[With apologies for my rather lengthy musings below...]
> Very little of the metadata has been
> translated. Look at http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces_de to see what
> was loaded.
Ahhh! Right, I understand now - that "German language" source file still
contains some of the information about the properties in English! That is
what was confusing me. I was seeing the English language property
description of dc:rights coming at the top of the list and thinking they
were all in English. My mistake. The interface is working as intended, I
think.
So.... the _only_ place where the language value is recorded is in the
dc:language property associated with the eor:Schema description?
Is that going to be sufficient? Or are we going to have to make a statement
about language against each of the class/property definitions? Or indeed
against each property within those definitions/declarations? In the rather
laborious fashion I was suggesting at
http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lispj/dc-multi/dcsimple/dctitle-en.xml
http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lispj/dc-multi/dcsimple/dctitle-fr.xml
I'll be delighted if that is not necessary...;-)... but I'm just trying to
fathom the exact relationship between those different descriptions. e.g. in
the file at
http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces_de
The following statements are "about" the resource
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
<eor:Schema rdf:about="&dcns;">
<rdf:value>Metadata-Elemente des Dublin Core</rdf:value>
<dc:title>Metadata-Elemente des Dublin Core</dc:title>
<dc:creator>Diann Rusch-Feja, [log in to unmask]</dc:creator>
<dc:publisher>The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative</dc:publisher>
<dc:description>Die folgenden Elemente, Definitionen und Beschreibungen
entsprechen dem Stand der Dublin-Core
Metadata-Diskussionen.</dc:description>
<dc:language>german</dc:language>
<dc:relation rdf:resource="http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/"/>
<dc:date>2000-07-02</dc:date>
</eor:Schema>
and in the file at
http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces
The following statements are also "about" the resource
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
<eor:Schema rdf:about="&dcns;">
<rdf:value>The Dublin Core Element Set v1.1</rdf:value>
<dc:title>The Dublin Core Element Set v1.1</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative</dc:publisher>
<dc:description>The Dublin Core metadata vocabulary is a simple vocabulary
intended to facilitate discovery of resources. </dc:description>
<dc:language>English</dc:language>
<dc:relation rdf:resource="http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/"/>
<dc:date>2000-07-02</dc:date>
</eor:Schema>
Does either of these explicitly say anything about the language of the
values of the properties which occur in class/property descriptions
elsewhere in the same source file? i.e. elsewhere in the file at
http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces_de
I find:
<rdf:Property rdf:about = "&dcns;title">
<rdfs:label>Titel</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:comment>Titel der Quelle; der vom Verfasser, Urheber oder Verleger
vergebene Namen der Ressource.</rdfs:comment>
<eor:comment>Typically, a Title will be a name by which the resource
is formally known.</eor:comment>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource = "&dcns;" />
</rdf:Property>
but I'm not clear what _explicitly_ tells me that the values of rdfs:label
and rdfs:comment here are in German.
All I have to go on from the two eor:Schema elements (included above) are
statements which say
resource http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
has property http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/language
with value "german"
resource http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
has property http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/language
with value "English"
How do these two triples (now completely divorced from the two source files)
help me say anything about the language of the description/declaration of
dc:title which originated in
http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces
which is in English, as distinct from the description/declaration of
dc:title which originated in
http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces_de
which is in German (actually, it's a mixture of English and German, but
let's imagine it was all in German).
I'm just wondering whether somewhere along the line we're assuming something
about the description of the language of the literal values which isn't
strictly speaking present in the input data.... but I think (I hope!) I'm
just missing something!
I think my real question should probably be, what resource are the
<eor:Schema> descriptions/models describing? At present, I think the two
instances provide two descriptions of the same resource
(http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ ), but I am wondering whether they should
actually describe two different resources (firstly, the English
"representation" of http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ and secondly the
German representation of http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ ) ?
> Does the Chinese work for you?
Afraid not.... neither in IE 5.5 nor Netscape (4.08)
Pete
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