Enrich existing vocabularies with local translations.
Localized applications that need to represent information in their local languages from external vocabularies that are not localized can define their own translations.
dc:contributor
as:
dc:contributor rdfs:label "Colaborador"@es .
A multilingual linked data application could transparently
select the tagged literal corresponding to
dc:contributor
in its preferred language.
Polluting well known vocabularies with localized literals may be controversial and should be handled with caution.
This pattern follows the Anyone-can-say-Anything-about-Any-topic (AAA) lemma[Alleman 10].
This pattern can be considered a special case of the Annotation pattern which says that it is entirely consistent with the Linked Data principles to make statements about third-party resources.