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dc:language metadata #22

Closed goodmami closed 4 years ago

goodmami commented 4 years ago

The WN-LMF 1.0 DTD allows 14 of the 15 Dublin Core elements as attributes (setting aside the attribute vs element thing (#5) for a moment) on many LMF elements. The missing one is dc:language. Some of the LMF elements have their own language attribute, but not all that allow Dublin Core metadata.

Is there a reason for this situation? Can we just add in dc:language and use that instead of the default namespace's language attribute?

jmccrae commented 4 years ago

I think the language attribute was introduced in the prior Kyoto-LMF version, so I didn't introduce dc:language as this would cause confusion. I think a single property makes more sense overall and we have restrictions on where this property occurs, whereas the DC properties are general metadata properties that can occur anywhere.

goodmami commented 4 years ago

Thanks. It makes sense as this is a linguistic resource and language plays a more prominent role than other kinds of resources. I guess I just found it surprising that only one of the 15 elements wasn't there in the DTD, although it is in the RDF schema. If this isn't an oversight then I think the issue can be closed.

goodmami commented 4 years ago

My question was answered. I'll close the issue.