Re: Review of 19 August Editor's Draft of SKOS Primer

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:02:54PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> -- The plural of "KOS".  The draft used "KOSs" or just
>    "KOS", as in "many existing KOS".  The Chicago Manual of
>    Style recommends "KOS's".  "KOSes" would be possible. I have
>    normalized everything to "KOS's" for now, though I don't
>    really like the way it looks.  If the KOS community has an
>    established way to pluralize KOS, I suggest we follow that.

A Google search shows that the plural is often just "KOS"
(e.g., [1]).  I suggest we go with this - it looks better than
"KOS's", "KOSs", and "KOSes"...

Tom

[1] http://www.db.dk/bh/lifeboat_ko/concepts/knowledge_organization_systems.htm

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Tom Baker - tbaker@tbaker.de - baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de

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