Re: [xtm-wg] language.xtm

[Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@ms.lt>]

Hi Daniel,
    I agree.  
    I proposed something like this but the response was "we can't do
this for country codes because they are already in the spec".
    Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@ms.lt

Daniel Rivers-Moore wrote:
> 
> I do not think it makes sense to create a PSI for each item in a vocabulary
> like the ISO country codes. What *does* make sense, however, is to create a
> PSI for the ISO standard itself, then to create a topic for each language
> you are interested in, giving it a baseName equal to its ISO language code,
> scoped on the topic that is the ISO standard. This for me is one powerful
> paradigm for appropriate use of baseNames. You use a baseName that is a term
> in a controlled vocabulary, scoped on the vocabulary. This baseName is
> guaranteed unique in that scope, because the scope is a controlled
> vocabulary, and the organisation that controls it (in this case ISO) can be
> trusted to ensure that no two things are given the same name in that
> vocabulary. Thus the topic naming constraint applies appropriately. Any two
> topics that are given that baseName in that scope will indeed have the same
> subject, namely the language (or whatever else it might be) that has that
> name within that vocabulary. The same approach works for country codes etc.

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