Re: [geolang-comment] One or two files for English and French?

[Murray Altheim <m.altheim@open.ac.uk>]

Mary Nishikawa wrote:

> 
>> *Steve
>> I think English and French have to be in the same file, thus:
>>
>>  http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso3166/#jp
> 
> Steve, yes you are right, and ISO would probably not want to add on 
> other languages, as John mentioned so there really isn't a need. Let's 
> say that I need to use Japanese names with the ISO set. I should use the 
> same published subject indicators and merge my names in?


This certainly seems the most sensible thing to do. Anyone could
publish similar sets for their own languages.


> Also, how about my other suggestion to delete the row for numeric codes 
> since they are repeated in the subject indicators, anyway, and to delete 
> the repetitive strings.


There may be some redundancy in this, but there is value in having
those codes appearing as scoped base names in their own right, ie.,
being able to locate specific topics via a subject identifier (whose
string just happens to be a specific code) is quite different than
being able to obtain the specific ISO code for the topic. One might
want the code, or to be able to extract the set of codes.

I don't know if this is any help, but you could point to the base
name itself as a subject identifier (as any XTM element can have
an ID and therefore be considered as a resource). That would save
some disk space, if that's the motivation.

my 2p, anyway...

Murray

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