Thanks to Pierre, Phil and Phil for the clarifications.
I hadn't spotted the "full" tab in Reload but am pleased to see that it
works nicely and all my data is visible that way. Intrallect appears to
be stricter and less forgiving.
Regarding the use of "en" or "en-GB", I'm not sure we've reached a
consensus here yet. As a Dutchman, I could imagine that Pierre would
wonder why he should be forced to use "en-GB" if there was nothing in
the data that was UK-specific. From that point of view it would make
sense to have "en" as the default setting and change it to "en-GB" if
there was something local in the data or a non-US spelling such as
"colour" instead of "color".
My problem is that my metadata is being generated automatically from a
template and I did not want question authors to have to bother
themselves with such details - there is no way that the program which
creates the metadata will know if the words are UK-specific or not. In
that case maybe it's better to use "en" for any automatically generated
metadata where we know it is non-UK specific and to have "en-GB" as the
default for anything entered by authors which could conceivably have
something local in it.
I have been trying to concentrate on QTI and avoid being sucked into
this metadata community but I fear it's already too late. I spent half
my weekend thinking about it which is very sad.
Niall
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