Re: [SKOS] languages and scripts

Hi, All,
No problem! This new recommendation is just getting off the ground in many
ways, so lots of folks are just learning about it. The important thing is
that all the stuff we've been doing with xml:lang is protected, but 4646
gives us the ability to annotate more features when we need to.
Bye for now
Sue Ellen


On 2/7/07, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for pointing us to the obvious, Sue :-)
>
> You wrote:
>
> > Do look at IETF 4646, which is the new replacement for 3066. It spells
> out
> > precisely how to report script codes as part of the language tag. I
> > strongly recommend the incorporation of 4646 into all apps involving
> > multilingual tagging.
>
> And we should provide an RDF representation of language codes in SKOS. I
> I wrote a first draft:
>
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/IANA_Language_Subtag_Registry_in_SKOS
>
> Greetings,
> Jakob
>
>


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Kent State University
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