" On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Frank Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Sylvester Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Andrea, > > > > On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:06 AM, andrea rossato wrote: > > > >> Hi Frank, > >> > >> I'm going to implement abbreviation support using citeproc-js as a > >> model: > >> http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/citeproc-doc.html#getabbreviations > >> > >> and I have a question. The first key of the list is "default": what are > >> other possible values and what are they used for? Is that meant for > >> multilingual support? > > > > just to pitch in, to my understanding, the values act as namespaces. > > Multilingual support could be theoretically achieved that way, however, if > > that is the main rationale perhaps the structure should be changed to > > reflect the 'multi' values on items and names. > > > > Sylvester > > Glad there is interest in abbreviations! I've been juggling things > around privately for the past month, and I think I have a handle on > the requirements -- which means that now is probably a good time to > get critical feedback. > > I need to prepare a document describing what the categories in the > Abbreviations Gadget (and processor) mean, and how the abbreviations > in each are applied. This weekend I'll be tied down with some other > tasks, but I should have something readable up within a week or so > after. Meanwhile, there's this: > > http://citationstylist.org/2011/11/04/citation-friendly-metadata-for-law/ > > On the one question up so far, I nearly cut out the "default" segment, > and then discovered that it was needed as a jurisdiction namespace, > for legal styles.
I'm having a hard time understanding what the notion of namespace means when applied to jurisdiction. Also, I'm just looking at this for the first time, What's the significance of the distinction between "authority" and "institution"? Isn't the former a subset of the latter (at least conceptually; there may be other reasons for the distinction)? Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
