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Subject: Re: [codelist] New feature request for genericode 2.0
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:20:06 +0100, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com> wrote: > Should there, then, be an informative annex in genericode with > "suggested" values for Identifier= attributes? So that when other users > of genericode choose to map to UN/CEFACT supplementary components, the > same conventions will be used? For completeness, that annex could list > all of the UN/CEFACT supplementary components and document what the > CLRTC offers as mappings to genericode. I don't see any problem with that. > But could we consider having: <ShortName>, <LongName> and <Identifier> > in <Identification>? Then it wouldn't be a problem for UN/CEFACT > components. That choice of three elements is already made for <Agency>, > rather than one short and two long names for <Agency>, so there is a > precedent of having sibling <LongName> and <Identifier> elements. Speaking for myself, I'm not keep to see <Identifier> in <Identification>. The thing is, all of the elements in <Identification> are identifiers of one form or another. Just because CEFACT call something an identifier doesn't make it any more of an identifier than other identifiers, if you see what I mean. For a genericode code list, the key identifiers are the canonical URIs. For that reason, my preferred approached would be to define a standard @Identifier attribute for <LongName>, or to define a standard annotation to use for the CEFACT identifier. That said, with UN/CEFACT ICG looking at using genericode, we should perhaps look at what they do with it, and perhaps let that guide us a bit. Is this actually an issue where it's more useful to get UBL and UN/CEFACT to agree on their genericode usage, rather than CLRTC trying to resolve it? Cheers, Tony. -- Anthony B. Coates Associate Director Document Engineering Services (Limited) UK: +44 (20) 8816 7700, US: +1 (239) 344 7700 Mobile/Cell: +44 (79) 0543 9026 Skype: abcoates anthony.coates@documentengineeringservices.com http://www.documentengineeringservices.com/
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