How many forms for orthographic variants?

Hi Philipp, all,

I notice in the spec and in the examples in the repository we still have
the following:

:lex_colour a ontolex:LexicalEntry;
     ontolex:form :form_colour;
     ontolex:form :form_color.

:form_colour ontolex:writtenRep "colour"@en-GB.
:form_color ontolex:writtenRep "color"@en-US.

That is: we use a different form URL for "color"@en-US to "colour"@en-GB.
This is IMHO not correct for two reasons

   - It involves duplicating any syntactic annotations on the form (e.g.,
   saying "colours" is a third-person present singular form of the verb and so
   is "colors")
   - It makes it impossible to decide which form is canonical, without
   putting the US form above the rest-of-the-world's form or vica versa.

Is this just an oversight, or does this still need to be discussed?

Regards,
John

Received on Friday, 11 July 2014 12:27:13 UTC