Discussion: Name attestations

[kintopp]

Is the RDF data being represented properly or is it missing and has to be added?

[kintopp]

We may want to be able to capture more than one language for a name attestation. And to switch to using three-letter ISO-639-3 codes.

[gklyne]

For languages, I'm using a language resource URI (currently private URI, but could be, e.g., lexvo) The language resource description both 2- and 3- letter codes could be supplied.

[gklyne]

Can we close this issue?

[kintopp]

I see that lexvo provides the necessary mappings and an API. Any reason to prefer private URI for this?

[gklyne]

Mainly that I wasn't sure how widely used, well supported or generally stable it is. If it has a good following and support, then probably better to use that than new private terms.

(Partly my style of working: unless there's an obvious good candidate, I tend to use private namespaces with the intent of aligning later... but I'm not saying that's always, of even even, the best way.)

It seems we should keep this open until we make a final decision either way on Lexvo.