Re: locale parameters suggestions

Hi Berna,

Good questions!

I think metadata about locale parameters is something different from 
locale-neutral representations. We could add a comma between them (after 
the closing parenthesis) to make that more clear. Or we could change 
"metadata about locale parameters" to "locale parameter metadata".

I think the publisher has to do two different things, because the two 
are different. They have to check the metadata and see that locale 
parameters are there, and they also have to look at the data itself to 
see that locale-sensitive fields are represented in a locale-neutral 
format. Does that make sense?

-Annette


On 8/9/16 8:58 AM, Bernadette Farias Lóscio wrote:
> Hi Annette,
>
> Thanks a lot for your suggestion! I'd like to make just few questions:
>
> 1. When you say "Internationalize your data with metadata about locale 
> parameters (date, time and number formats, language) and 
> locale-neutral representations." it means that metadata are about 
> locale parameters and locale-neutral representations? I understand 
> that metadata is just about locale parameters. Is that correct? Could 
> we say: "and use locale-neutral data representations."?
>
> 2. In the 'How to test section' of BP3 [1] we have three tests: the 
> first two ones concern the use of locale parameters metadata and the 
> third one is about the use of locale-neutral representations. My 
> question is: the publisher have to do both things, i.e. to give 
> metadata about locale parameters and use local-neutral 
> representations, at the same time?
>
> cheers,
> Berna
>
> [1] http://agreiner.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#LocaleParametersMetadata
>
> 2016-08-06 1:28 GMT+02:00 Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov 
> <mailto:amgreiner@lbl.gov>>:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     Here is a suggestion of the text for BP 3, if we were to try and
>     add in the information about locale-neutral formats. Besides
>     changing the title and subtitle, I changed the very beginning of
>     the Why paragraph to use the word "information" instead of
>     "parameters". I removed the phrase suggesting that people use CLDR
>     to localize data, as that goes against the idea of being locale
>     neutral. I added a new paragraph just before EXAMPLE 3. I also
>     added a locale-neutral bit to the example and a test for locale
>     neutrality. This version also has the commit for the language tags.
>
>     You can see the result at
>
>     http://agreiner.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#metadata
>     <http://agreiner.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#metadata>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Annette Greiner
>     NERSC Data and Analytics Services
>     Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Bernadette Farias Lóscio
> Centro de Informática
> Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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Annette Greiner
NERSC Data and Analytics Services
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory