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Provide clear guidance about which language are a must #178

Open Juan-Juan-1 opened 3 years ago

Juan-Juan-1 commented 3 years ago

Property: multiple properties, for example title, description... Class: - Ist: DCAT-AP CH does not provide any guidance regarding which language are a must and which not. It just enables multilingualism. Soll: To increase to usability of data and provide clearer guidance for data publisher at every level it should be clearly stated which language are a must. It can also be diferntiated for different federal levels. For instance: "DE and FR obligatory only for the federal level."

AFoletti commented 3 years ago

I think a simple "should" instead of a "must" is sufficient in this case, or we risk to either make the requirement borderline useless ("must be a swiss official language") or have a riot if you define DE, FR (or both) as a must and not IT.

On the contrary, I think it would be really useful to define that at the federal level you "must" have at least 2 official languages

p1d1d1 commented 3 years ago

On which bases do we define the "mandatory" languages?

l00mi commented 3 years ago

No strong opinion on what is a mandatory language, I think the "should" is the only realistic path here.

But I have a strong opinion on making it mandatory to state the language a property has, aka languageTag.

mispichtig commented 6 months ago

https://www.dcat-ap.ch/releases/2.0/dcat-ap-ch.html#multilingualism

l00mi commented 6 months ago

Oh, is it intentional that the specification exactly does the opposite I proposed? (-: Please make sure that the people MUST state the language they use.