[Fwd: FW: PSI's for countries]

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Subject: [Fwd: FW: PSI's for countries]

From: Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>

To: tm-pubsubj@lists.oasis-open.org

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:47:25 -0400

Greetings, I am forwarding this message on behalf of Gabriel. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Patrick@Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!

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From: "Gabriel Hopmans \(Morpheus\)" <g.hopmans@mssm.nl>
To: <patrick@durusau.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:32:17 +0200

Title: Bericht

Hello Patrick,

Can you post my message to the PubSubj mailing list? (see below)?

Unless of course it is not relevant...

I am at the moment busy with adding Dutch names for 3166-core.xtm, I will send it to you as it is finished.

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

Gabriel

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Van: Gabriel Hopmans (Morpheus) [mailto:g.hopmans@mssm.nl]
Verzonden: maandag 15 augustus 2005 16:10
Aan: 'comment-form@oasis-open.org'
CC: 'topicmapmail@infoloom.com'
Onderwerp: PSI's for countries

Hello All,

Why is the last part of PSI's for Countries a number and not the more common used alpha 2- or 3- code elements?

We have this PSI for Thailand:

http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/#764

But the 2-letter code http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/#TH seems to me a lot more useful.

We also have/had:

http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/country.xtm#TH

In some projects we are doing it would be a lot more useful to have the 2/3 code elements because then we could just generate them half-automatically.

Now we need to make mappings between the numbers and the code elements.

Or we need to use the mappings available at:

http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/3166-mapping.xtm

And is this last option then best practise?

Maybe it is also an idea to start a broader discussion about Published Subjects at the TMRA conference? There are (I suppose) still open space session tracks available?

Thanks,

Gabriel

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