Re: [ubl-lcsc] Currency codes (ISO 4217)

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

I hope we all realise the significance of Jon's activity as it impacts of
the interoperability of 'standard' code sets:

1. he needed to manually edit these code set values, which questions the
integrity of the code sets and creates opportunities for others to interpet
them differently.  therefore, they are not 'standard' anymore.

2. the source of these code set values (BSI) is not the 'source' of the standard
(ISO) which means that we have no meta-data about version, agency, etc..
 this means we do not know how old these code values are.  the BSI site also
states..

Take a look at the list of currency codes.  (Please note that this listing may not be up to date)

- again this does not mean our code set will be interoperable with others
claiming the same code set.

i make this point not to criticise what is being done, just to emphasise
that this is what HAS to be done in nearly all cases.  we need to recognise
the 80/20 rule in populating and adopting code sets as we do in other aspects
of the library.


jon.bosak@sun.com wrote:
> I downloaded the file "publicly available" from BSI at the address
> above and extracted the currency names contained therein together
> with their corresponding three-letter codes.  After editing the
> list to remove duplicate entries and in some cases to disambiguate
> duplicate currency names referring to different currencies, I
> extracted the codes from that list and put them in alphabetical
> order.  Then I put the codes into the schema format defined by
> G. Ken Holman for the "raw" input to his codelist schema
> transformation.

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