Le Sun, 31 May 2009 16:41:55 -0400,
Louis Suarez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> 
> 
> On 2009-05-30, at 04:18 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> > I may have misunderstood but it should also be noted that AFAICT
> > RG groups wiki should also belong to the NLC category, or am I
> > being mistaken?
> 
> I think mistaken, as a lot of the regions will occupy more than one  
> linguistic territory and to depend the RGs to the NLCs will end up  
> confusing matters. I'd rather then initiate a new sector, "Regional  
> Groups" which may be freely linked to or even on occasion duplicate  
> the NLC extant efforts. I've grown less fearful of
> duplication--humans like inventing and then reinventing the wheel and
> that's the way it is--but do want to limit confusion.
> 
> Let's say I'm looking for an RG based in Delhi. The region is fairly  
> local--a small city, Delhi boasts only >12M, a lentil compared to  
> Mexico City's bean :-) --and nearly as many languages as there are  
> gods: lots.  I could find this RG easily enough by looking for Delhi  
> under "India" but may not so easily if I look, say, under Hindi, etc.
> 
> But I'm not too deaf to reason. If you or anyone else, like Cornell,  
> come up with a better ontology, I'm all ears. My forte is not  
> informatics ontology, but it is, I am sure, someone else's.

Well, what I'm only requesting is to tag the RG wiki pages as NLC; but
tagging them as regional groups beside it is obvious to me; this is a
wiki, after all...

Cheers,

Charles.






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