[tdwg-tapir] tapir metadata issues

[Renato De Giovanni]

Hi Markus,

I agree it's unusual, but I think in DC they were also considering the
possibility to have the content of dc:language in natural language. You
can see an example in their own documentation:

http://dublincore.org/2006/12/18/dces.rdf#

Anyway, the documentation also says that "Recommended best practice is to
use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 3066 [RFC3066]", which is what
you're suggesting.

I'll try to list some alternatives in another message.

Regards,
--
Renato

> Hi there,
> This really is weird.
> I was confident that the xml schema language data type was used. This
> defines natural language identifiers as defined by RFC 3066.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#language
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt
>
> But when I looked up the tapir schema, it makes use of the dublin core
> schema that then states the following:
>
>   <xs:element name="language" substitutionGroup="any"/>
>   <xs:element name="any" type="SimpleLiteral" abstract="true"/>
>   <xs:complexType name="SimpleLiteral">
>    <xs:complexContent mixed="true">
>     <xs:restriction base="xs:anyType">
>      <xs:sequence>
>       <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="0"/>
>      </xs:sequence>
>      <xs:attribute ref="xml:lang" use="optional"/>
>     </xs:restriction>
>    </xs:complexContent>
>   </xs:complexType>
>
> So you can use anything for the dc:language element AND tag it with an
> optional xml:lang attribute. Thats weird:
>
> <dc:language xml:lang="en">swuaheli</dc:language>
>
>
>
> Markus