[uf-discuss] Re: [hCite] call for examples: language (Andy Mabbett)

Fri Feb 2 22:35:04 PST 2007

On Feb 2, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> I may be rare, but it does happen. "Mein Kampf" in English is still
> titled "Mein Kampf"
>>> So if the evidence confirms my suspicion that it's really rare to 
>> need
>> to mark up the language of (for example) the book separately from the
>> language of the words in the book's title,

<snip>
>> (And hence, drop the 'language' field from the hCite straw format?)
>> I still don't think that that are anywhere near enough examples,
> especially of non-English-language sources, to be confident that it's
> not widely used.

I'm going to suggest that a language field--for works where the title
incorrectly implies the resources language--sits outside of the 80/20 
for
a citation microformat for a number of reasons:
 1. According to our current evidence it's very rare
 2. In some cases where it does occur (online resources) common HTML
 constructs (@hreflang) fulfill the need completely.
 3. In many remaining contexts, language differences are unimportant 
for
 the user. E.g.: a scholar chasing the citations of a critique of
 French literature written in English will likely already know 
French.
-- 
Ryan
http://RyanCannon.com