Stuart,
Sorry, I didn't mean to discount citation representations along other content-negotiable dimensions. It seems likely that BCP-47 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646> will eventually be upgraded to recognize signwriting. If so, my URI pattern suggestion could be extended to support language, script, etc. like so:
http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt
In FRBR, serials are recognized as a distinct class so I assume this URI pattern could be applied to suit all:
http://example.org/serial/2/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt (text/plain)
Jeff
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> stuart yeates
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> Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:
> > http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-apa.txt (text/plain)
>
> The problem I have with the use of (text/plain) is that too many
> platforms still assume / default to latin1 for text/plain. While this
> appears to be reducing, with signwriting still coming through the
> standards pipeline we're not out of the woods yet.
>
> And yes, there are serials in signwriting.
>
> cheers
> stuart
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> Stuart Yeates
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