[uf-new] Re: markup advice for the citation microformat (Michael
McCracken)
Scott Reynen
scott at makedatamakesense.com
Tue Apr 24 09:40:42 PDT 2007
On Apr 24, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Kristin Caulfield wrote:
> The date issue is something that we're working on right now in
> developing the backend database to our site. As mentioned in the
> citation-brainstorming section of the wiki, so many publication
> dates don't follow the standard machine-readable format of
> YYYYMMDD. Books tend to be just years, journals are usually month/
> year or season/year, etc. In our case, except for newspaper
> articles and the like, most of our publication dates wouldn't fit
> into the YYYYMMDD format. I don't really have a question about this
> issue right now, but if there have been any new developments/
> thoughts on this beyond what is on the wiki, I would like to know.
I assume dates for citation will be based on the datetime design
pattern:
http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern
Which is based on ISO 8601:
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
Which has variable specificity, so YYYY is a valid date format.
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Scott Reynen
MakeDataMakeSense.com
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