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dcterms:language property in dcat:Distribution #1532

Closed marielleadam closed 1 year ago

marielleadam commented 2 years ago

In Belgium, we are often working with resources in different languages since we have 3 official languages. It can therefore happen that distributions are published in 3 or 4 languages at federal level, as our publications are intended for all publics.

In paragraph 6.4.9 Property language, under Class: Cataloged Resource, usage note gives the following instruction: If representations of a dataset are available for each language separately, define an instance of dcat:Distribution for each language and describe the specific language of each distribution using dcterms:language (i.e., the dataset will have multiple dcterms:language values and each distribution will have just one as the value of its dcterms:language property). Nevertheless, in the vocabulary specification for Class: Distribution, the property language is not listed as specific to this class. Is it confirmed that we can use dcterms:language property for each distribution of a dataset available in different languages? How to deal with distributions that are the same for different languages? Can we use more than one dcterms:language property for a distribution?

riccardoAlbertoni commented 2 years ago

Is it confirmed that we can use dcterms:language property for each distribution of a dataset available in different languages?

Yes, see the usage note for dcterms:language https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/#Property:resource_language

How to deal with distributions that are the same for different languages? Can we use more than one dcterms:language property for a distribution?

Yes, it makes sense to me if a distribution supports more than a language, as there are 3 official languages which are required to be distributed jointly.

riccardoAlbertoni commented 1 year ago

To make it even more explicit, PR #1535 specifies in the usage note of dcat:Resource that "in the case of multilingual distributions, the distributions will have multiple dcterms:language values."