Rebecca Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Titia van der Werf wrote:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > For project DONOR in the Netherlands we are finalising our user guide for
> > DC metadata. In this guide we recommend to declare the schemes used in the
> > meta-tags as follows:
> >
> > Language:
> > <LINK REL=ISO639-1 HREF="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1766.txt">
>
> Titia:
>
> I'm not sure if it will help you at this very moment, but ISO 639-2 was
> recently approved (finally; it was 9 years in the making). I'm not sure
> what the projected publication date is. It specifies a 3-character code,
> which allows for coding many more languages than 639-1. If you'd like
> further information about it, let me know. LC will be the maintenance
> agency for the standard.
Currently, Internet standards and products all use ISO 639-1. They may
(or may not) add support for ISO 639-2 in the future.
> Rebecca
>
Misha
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