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- From: Robin Cover <robin@isogen.com>
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:32:41 -0600 (CST)
> 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
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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.
>
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