> From [log in to unmask] Thu Sep 26 15:11 MET 2002
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> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:11:28 -0400
> From: "Wagner,Harry" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Non-en-US schemas?
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Pete,
>
> > I was expecting to find hyperlinks somewhere to documents containing
> > RDF/XML representations ("schemas") with this information in Spanish,
> > French, German, Italian etc, but regardless of the language displayed
> > the HTML pages all contain links to the "namespace URI", and the
> > document returned contains only the metadata about the terms in en-US.
> > Is that right please?
>
> That is correct. The registry does not link to translated versions of the
> rdf schemas. However, the registry does provide translations of the DC
> terms. This seems appropriate since the purpose of the registry is to
> enable users to explore the DC vocabulary, not to demonstrate RDF encoding
> techniques. My apologies if this comes as a surprise. I'm not aware on any
> requirements for this function, and in the many months the registry has been
> available on the work-in-progress site, no one has asked for it.
I got a message, that dc:international requires such and demands
changing the current RDF schema on these grounds
(i actually had started to work on that).
More confusion....
rs
>
> > Does the registry allow a user to get an RDF/XML representation (as
> > opposed to an HTML document) in a language other than English please?
> >
> > To tie this back to earlier threads, this (it seems to me) is another
> > example of more metadata about the DCMI terms, which may not
> > necessarily
> > be stored in the schema which is obtained "at the namespace
> > URI", but is
> > nevertheless useful to expose as RDF/XML and that may be in separate
> > files/schemas?
>
> Part of the base functionality I expect to be included in phase 2 is the
> ability for an "application / other registry" to query the registry for
> information about DC and ask for the response in any one of the supported
> languages, and in various encodings. RDFS would be one of these.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best Regards,
> Harry
>
>
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