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> the notion that there is some ordering on a document's author, title, > and date-of-publication is surprising and unnatural. -T. Depends... He said "list of authors." As in, multiple authors, where the principal author is listed first (regardless of the spelling of surname and Western-style collation sequence), the "next-most- principal-author" is listed second in the order(-ed, -able) author list, reflecting the contract... blah blah. Of course, such notions reflect perspective, which may or may not be implicit/explicit in the style rules and underlying assumptions of the house. Hence: "views, perspectives, projections, purposes." No one of them is fixed. The poem escapes the intent of the author, and becomes the property of the collective consciousness of the community. -rcc ----------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Tim Bray wrote: > At 11:41 AM 12/2/99 PST, Mike Spreitzer wrote: > >What about the list of authors of a scholarly paper? Isn't that metadata for which order > >matters? > > Yep, in fact that's the one use-case that kept coming up during the early > stage of RDF design. Here's another one for free: content models. But > the notion that there is some ordering on a document's author, title, > and date-of-publication is surprising and unnatural. -T. > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > unsubscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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