On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 Paul wrote:
> Hull is actually Kingston upon Hull, and it is currently
> in the notional East Riding of Yorkshire
I knew the counties had moved ... I picked Hull as I knew there were
at least 2 in the world and Britain has these interesting "aliases" ..
> adoption of a sensible and fairly intelligent system like TGN
Sounds good. Is this on the net anywhere ? As a "nethead" I have a problem
with writing HTML guides that say "look this up in some 10kg lump of paper
available for $400 or at your local academic library..." - a bit tricky if
you happen to be on Baffin Island or on a sailboat somewhere with
a satellite link. :-)
If we use comma-separated elements, as is current practice
for HTML META name="keywords", then in this example
"Hull, Yorkshire, England" (or "Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England")
if my agent is interested in this city it might use (excuse my Perl)
$match = ( /hull/i && ( /yorkshire/i || /england/i ) ) ;
.. ignore case, Hull AND (Yorkshire OR England) ..
hopefully avoiding Hull, Quebec and Kingston upon Thames ....
Of course this is all rather vague compared to doing it "properly" with
TGN, LCSH, or structured metadata, but might work for us regular folks.
Does this seem reasonable ?
i.e. that multiple comma-separated values are allowed for text elements
providing they use the same scheme and language.
Andrew Daviel
Vancouver, Canada (... not Vancouver, WA ... )
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