[MOBY-dev] xml:lang explored

[Mark Wilkinson]

Should we allow registration of objects, service-types and namespaces in  
foreign languages also?  If so, then we need to re-think the entire way we  
manage the ontology, and assign unique id numbers to each node, where the  
rdf:label of the node can have multiple languages, rather than having the  
node named by its label.

...can... worms... but it's probably the "right thing to do"...

M



On Mon, 26 May 2008 00:21:23 -0700, Jason Stewart  
<jason.e.stewart at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Here's what I have found out.
>
> I don't believe that changing the current parser for Central.pm is
> going to help the situation. I have looked and besides special API's
> like the one implemented by LibXML::Reader, the application is always
> required to maintain the status of xml:lang using the standard SAX and
> DOM API's - for Java or for Perl.
>
> We will have to preserve the information in the DB, so a decision
> needs to be made on what level the xml:lang should be used - only for
> descriptions?? or for the whole registration?? At the moment I don't
> see any reason to use it for more than the description - how do people
> feel about this? Changing this should require adding one column to the
> DB.
>
> Finally, do we want registration with multiple descriptions? That will
> probably require a significant change in the DB - a new table for
> linking descriptions to registrations. Are people happy about that?
>
> Cheers, jas.
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Mark D Wilkinson, PI Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics
The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research
Providence Heart + Lung Institute
University of British Columbia - St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, BC, Canada