Unify whitespace and punctuation usage in dcat.ttl #202
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While working on the Czech translation of dcat.ttl, I noticed that the punctuation and whitespaces in literals are not unified.
In general, there are three main properties used, rdfs:label, rdfs:comment and vann:usageNote. There should be a clear guideline on whether each of the literals referenced by these properties should or should not end with a full stop "." and whether or not whitespaces such as newlines are OK in the literals or not.
At the moment, these differ in various languages.
My proposal:
Regarding whitespaces, I would not use them in RDF Literals as this would add additional complexity to any software actually displaying those texts.
An example with whitespace padding and newlines:
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