[OntGov] Multilingual support

[Leadbetter, Adam]

The W3C documentation on this is here

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/Overview.en.php 

If I'm understanding it right, it states that the valid "subtags" to be used in XML and HTML language tags reside here

http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry 

and the language definitions are to be built as

language-extlang-script-region-variant-extension-privateuse

The most we'll (probably) need is language-extlang for en-GB or en-US...

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: ontgov-bounces at mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk [mailto:ontgov-bounces at mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mike Grant
Sent: 18 May 2011 15:31
To: NETMAR Scenario Ontology Governance
Subject: Re: [OntGov] Multilingual support

Hi Roy,

On 18/05/11 11:54, Lowry, Roy K. wrote:
> I am proposing basing language labelling in the NETMAR semantic
> resources on ISO639-1, a collection of 2-bytes codes representing 136

Just as an oddball comment, there's also the IETF language tags
("en-US", "en-GB") as commonly used in the web / computing world.  A
nice comparison is at:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_code

Perhaps this is (nearly?) what GEMET use?

On your two questions, I don't think the PML use cases are particularly
affected, so we're not too worried by either option.  On a personal
level, I like the IETF approach, but only because I'm used to it.

Cheers,

Mike.

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