Nice one. (And I'm just waiting for someone to point out that an Easter
supplement is also inappropriate because of its Christian centricity. In
practice, I don't think religious designations are used as issue labels, at
least not in academic journals, although magazines and comics may well have
Christmas issues.)
Of course, because I am arguing that an issue label is not really a
chronology in any sense of pertaining to real dates (it's just the name of
the issue), it doesn't matter whether it's Spring in Australia or Spring in
the US - the issue may have been published six months late in the Autumn
anyway, and still be called the Spring issue, which then wouldn't give the
southern hemisphere any sense of dissonance :-)
Regards
Cliff
Simon Cox <[log in to unmask]> on 22/07/99 09:31:49
To: Cliff Morgan/Chichester/Wiley
cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Clean Relations
[log in to unmask] wrote (in part):
>
> ... (How would you
> express Spring?) But if any value can be a text string, I guess (despite
my
> philosophical objections!), you could have dc.date = February 1999 or
> dc.date = Spring 1999 or dc.date = 1st Quarter 1999, if the consensus is
> that that's where chronology should go. I'd rather it be there than in
> dc.identifier.
Also please note that for "Spring" to be meaningful as dc.date,
it is necessary to indicate the hemisphere of publication ;-)
(It's mid-winter here in Oz.)
--
Best Simon
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