Re: [sdw] Re-charter W3C/OGC working group (#1445)

An interesting question!
According to wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen>, there
aren't  any strict rules for hyphenation in cases like this. The same
article does mention that hyphenation is gradually disappearing from the
English language. Also, it looks like wikipedia articles using the word
'spatiotemporal' form a majority. Examples are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatiotemporal_database and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatiotemporal_pattern. On the other hand,
there is this article
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%E2%80%93temporal_reasoning> that
uses the term 'spatial-temporal' (not spatio- but spatial- !).
Another telling thing is that my Google search autocorrects
(auto-corrects?) the spelling 'spatio-temporal' to 'spatiotemporal'.
Merriam-Webster <https://www.merriam-webster.com/> does the same thing.
My short research seems to tell me that there is no rule set in stone, but
that spatiotemporal is the more modern and popular spelling. Chris, how old
are the paper dictionaries you have consulted?

Regards,
Frans

Op do 16 jan 2025 om 12:02 schreef Chris Little via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org
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> @dr-shorthair Is there a consensus on `spatiotemporal` versus
> `spatio-temporal`? I think this is a rather minor but important point!
>
> 1. Wikipedia seems to have only a short, older, article on the former
> portmanteau.
> 2. Paper dictionaries seem to prefer the latter, as they view it as a
> neologism.
> 3. The OGC API-EDR standard was sloppily split between both, and we've
> just done an edit to go for the hyphenated latter, as it seemed better
> English English, and doesn't seem to cause any problems with editting tools
> or search engines.
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