Re: [codelist] New feature request for genericode 2.0

["Anthony B. Coates (DES)"<anthony.coates@documentengineeringservices.com>]

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.
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