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Inconsistent English language tags #42

Closed baskaufs closed 8 years ago

baskaufs commented 8 years ago

In the Darwin Core RDF, some documents tag literals using "@en", while others use "@en-US". Should they all be "@en" or should the variety of the writer be noted? Does it matter?

tucotuco commented 8 years ago

@baskaufs I am not sure what you mean. I can see no references to "en-US" in any of the three RDF documents "dwcterms.rdf","dwctermshistory.rdf", and "terms/guides/rdf/index.htm".

baskaufs commented 8 years ago

Sorry, I should have been more specific. The "en-US" tags are here: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/blob/master/terms/attributes/dwcattributes.rdf which also comes from here: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/attributes/ when you dereference the dwcattributes: terms. There are also several other problems with dwcattributes.rdf but I should probably raise them on the DwC issues tracker.

tucotuco commented 8 years ago

Fixed in c7c38601b996a66f3c1f6cf359d4ae8740bde5a2.

baskaufs commented 8 years ago

This was somewhat of a theoretical issue as opposed to a bug report for DwC. Is it a better practice to tag literals more generically as "en" and not worry about the flavor of English? I suppose it might matter in the case of term labels, like "license"@en-US vs. "licence"@en-GB, but probably not most of the time.