On 1/17/07, Michael McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looking at the examples on citation-examples, I find the following
frequencies of marking up a date:
publication date: 21
date accessed: 3
date copyrighted: 1 (from OCLC worldcat online)
I just added date-accessed to the working straw schema.
Certainly all three are useful, but can we find more examples for the last two?
I'd be more comfortable having a 'date copyrighted' field in the uf if
there was more than one real-world example on the wiki.
--- the other senario is to strip this down to the basics for a
version 1 and NOT include those lesser used dates, then use hCite for
awhile, see what falls down and itterate?
If there is another date field that you think is useful, now would be
a good time to add examples of its use and discuss it.
--- the best way to do this is not to just suggest a datetime you
want, but as Michael mentioned, fine examples!
Also, I assume the date fields should use abbr:
<abbr class="date-published" title="ISOdate">date text</abbr>
however, many publications have only years, or just years and months -
it would be good to have a recommendation about what to do in that
case. Would <span class="date-published">2007</span> be acceptable, or
should we insist on the full ISO date?
--- YYYY is a valid year[1]. The tricky things is when you are
converting an hCite to a variety of different non-HTML formats then a
Month Day might be required and can be added as 01-01 (but i'm open to
other interpretations)
The problem is how we would know to ignore the month and day in the
full date if they're just there to satisfy parsers.
--- in my start of crafting XSLT files i was converting hCite to
BibTeX. BibTeX has seperate Month, Day, Year and the parser extracts
those independatly from a single ISO date. If those are NULL then the
first of the Month,Year are valid.
There was the same discussion awhile about about how to mark-up
"Fall", "Spring", ... Then there is the weird senario in the UK where
some Magazines come-out a month before their publication date.
-brian
[1] - http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
--
brian suda
http://suda.co.uk
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