- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:38:20 -0000
- To: 'Stella Dextre Clarke' <sdclarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
Stella wrote: > Direct immediate searching may not be the only need. If you > want to use > the data to print out or present an on-screen display of the thesaurus > for human look-up, then you might want to present a British-spelt > version for UK users, an American spelt version for US users. > You might > even want to give users an option to choose their dialect, > just as they > might choose to display in French or German. For this purpose > undifferentiated altLabels are insufficient. Labels with language tags are sufficient for this (if each dialect is treated as a separate language). (e.g. <skos:Concept> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en-US">Color</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en-GB">Colour</skos:prefLabel> </skos:Concept> ) Al.
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