[Platforms] Case of Ship Names

[Szaron Jan]

Dear Colleagues,

The Swedish Oceanographic Data Centre uses upper case letters for ships.

I personally like when ships are spelt in uppercase letters in scientific reports and articles, the ship stands out.

Another reason is that pointed out by Roy ("...written on her side...").

But we are flexible, we can map, and a solution is Roy's STORE/DISPLAY.

Best regards,
/Jan


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Skickat: den 4 juni 2007 15:21
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Dear All,

Mitch threw a bit of an issue into the ring with the case to be used for Dom Carlos I. I'd love to hear peoples' views on this.  In BODC we actually hold a local copy of the ICES code list with the ship name in mixed case, mainly because mixed case is more aesthetically pleasing when displayed.  However, when one actually visits a ship then the name is written on her side in upper case.  A walk around the web shows 100 per cent inconsistency in the case used - sometimes upper and mixed case appear in the same paragraph!

Does anybody know of a respected authoritative view on this?  If not, can we as a group reach a consensus?

My personal view is that we should aim in the long term to STORE names in mixed case.  This is because it is much easier and more robust to convert from mixed case to upper case for DISPLAY than it is the other way around, particularly when some names can include acronyms that should be maintained in upper case (e.g. CEFAS Endeavour, possibly???).

Cheers, Roy.

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