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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Roy, all,<BR>
I personally have no specific requirements when it comes to language codes. ISO639-1 is fine for me. This is the standard recommended by EIONET anyway.<BR>
Personally I do not think that UK and US English need to be differentiated in ICAN. They simply need to be considered and matched. For instance we need to make sure that “coastline” and “shoreline” are both included in the ICAN ontologies and that they mean the same thing.<BR>
Every atlas in ICAN has its own ontology anyway and will come either in UK English or in US English, and hardly in both. The only problem is labelling the ICAN global ontology. Unless people start fighting over which is to use for preferred labels I do not think we need to differentiate UK and US English. Otherwise we can just assume that UK labels are the preferred ones :-), any other label is just an alternative English label.<BR>
Cheers,<BR>
Yassine<BR>
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On 18/05/2011 11:54, "Lowry, Roy K." <<a href="rkl@bodc.ac.uk">rkl@bodc.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Dear All,<BR>
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I am proposing basing language labelling in the NETMAR semantic resources on ISO639-1, a collection of 2-bytes codes representing 136 languages. As far as I can ascertain, it is the most widely followed part of the standard, although Dublin Core documentation quotes ISO639-3 (3-bytes codes covering many more languages). It is largely followed by GEMET, although they have extensions to differentiate between UK and US English and specify a Chinese dialect. US and UK English are not differentiated in ISO639-3.<BR>
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I have two questions:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Does anybody disagree with the choice of ISO639-1 for NETMAR?
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Do we need to differentiate between UK and US English? I’m thinking particularly of the ICAN semantic requirements here. If so, should we follow GEMET, who code UK English ‘en’ and US English ‘en-US’, into extension of ISO639-1?<BR>
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Cheers, Roy.<BR>
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