@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>.
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>.
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>.
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>.
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>.
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>.
@prefix dwc: <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/>.
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>.
@prefix tdwgutility: <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/attributes/>.
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>.
@prefix dwciri: <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/>.

<http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/version/metadataLanguage-2026-02-24>
     rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/version/>;
     dcterms:isPartOf <http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/version/>;
     dcterms:issued "2026-02-24"^^xsd:date;
     tdwgutility:status "recommended"^^xsd:string;
     dcterms:replaces <http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/version/metadataLanguage-2023-09-05>;
     rdfs:label "Metadata Language"@en;
     skos:prefLabel "Metadata Language"@en;
     rdfs:comment "The URI of the language of description and other metadata (but not necessarily of the image itself) , from the ISO639-2 list of URIs for ISO 3-letter language codes, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2."@en;
     skos:definition "The URI of the language of description and other metadata (but not necessarily of the image itself) , from the ISO639-2 list of URIs for ISO 3-letter language codes, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2."@en;
     skos:scopeNote "At least one of ac:metadataLanguage and ac:metadataLanguageLiteral MUST be supplied but, when feasible, supplying both might make the metadata more widely useful. They must specify the same language. In case of ambiguity, ac:metadataLanguage prevails."@en;
     dcterms:description "This is NOT dcterms:language, which is about the resource, not the metadata. Metadata Language is deliberately single-valued, imposing on unstructured serializations a requirement that multi-lingual metadata be represented as separate, complete, metadata records. Audiovisual Core requires that each record also contains the language-neutral terms. In the absence of this requirement, metadata consumers would need to know which terms are language-neutral and merge these terms from all provided metadataLanguages into a single record. Metadata consumers may re-combine the information based on the dcterms:identifier that identifies the multimedia resource. Nothing in this document would, however, prevent an implementer, e.g., of an XML-Schema representation, from providing a fully hierarchical schema in which language neutral terms occur only a single time, and only the language-specific terms are repeated in a way that unambiguously relates them to a metadata language. In RDF it may be a simple repetition of plain literals associated with a language (e.g., xml:lang attribute in RDF/XML). The language attribute would then be required in Audiovisual Core and would replace ac:metadataLanguage."@en;
     rdf:type <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property>;
     tdwgutility:organizedInClass <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/attributes/Management>;
     tdwgutility:required "Yes";
     tdwgutility:repeatable "No";
     dcterms:isVersionOf <http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/metadataLanguage>.

<http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/version/metadataLanguage-2026-02-24.ttl>
     dc:format "text/turtle";
     dc:creator "Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)";
     dcterms:references <http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/version/metadataLanguage-2026-02-24>;
     dcterms:modified "2026-03-19T16:32:15-05:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
     a foaf:document.