[OntGov] Multilingual support

[Lassoued, Yassine]

Hi Roy, all,
I personally have no specific requirements when it comes to language codes.
ISO639-1 is fine for me. This is the standard recommended by EIONET anyway.
Personally I do not think that UK and US English need to be differentiated
in  ICAN. They simply need to be considered and matched. For instance we
need to make sure that ³coastline² and ³shoreline² are both included in the
ICAN ontologies and that they mean the same thing.
Every atlas in ICAN has its own ontology anyway and will come either in UK
English or in US English, and hardly in both. The only problem is labelling
the ICAN global ontology. Unless people start fighting over which is to use
for preferred labels I do not think we need to differentiate UK and US
English. Otherwise we can just assume that UK labels are the preferred ones
:-), any other label is just an alternative English label.
Cheers,
Yassine



On 18/05/2011 11:54, "Lowry, Roy K." <rkl at bodc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
>  
> I am proposing basing language labelling in the NETMAR semantic resources on
> ISO639-1, a collection of 2-bytes codes representing 136 languages.  As far as
> I can ascertain, it is the most widely followed part of the standard, although
> Dublin Core documentation quotes ISO639-3 (3-bytes codes covering many more
> languages). It is largely followed by GEMET, although they have extensions to
> differentiate between UK and US English and specify a Chinese dialect.  US and
> UK English are not differentiated in ISO639-3.
>  
> I have two questions:
>  
> 1. Does anybody disagree with the choice of ISO639-1 for NETMAR?
> 2. Do we need to differentiate between UK and US English?  I¹m thinking
> particularly of the ICAN semantic requirements here. If so, should we follow
> GEMET, who code UK English Œen¹ and US English Œen-US¹, into extension of
> ISO639-1?
>  
> Cheers, Roy.
>  

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