Re: [i18n review comment] Mention the need for metadata in multiple human languages #19

Caroline Burle <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:12:57 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.internationalization.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Ishida, Felix and all i18n members,

we very much appreciate your reviewing and comments. We will read and 
discuss them next week and we will let you know if we have any doubts.

Thank you! Kind regards,
BP Editors

On 22/07/16 09:43, [email protected] wrote:
> [raised by fsasaki]
>
> Section 9.2 Metadata
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-dwbp-20150625/#metadata
>
> The section says "Best Practice 1: Provide metadata":
> "Metadata must be provided for both human users and computer 
> applications"
>
> This best practice does not talk about metadata in multiple languages. 
> One should require that metadata is provided in the language of the 
> user at least.
>
> The same comment holds for
> "Best Practice 2: Provide descriptive metadata"
> in the same section, and in section 9.14 on enrichment
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-dwbp-20150625/#enrichment
>
> There is
> "Best Practice 3: Provide locale parameters metadata … Information 
> about locale parameters (date, time, and number formats, language) 
> should be described by metadata."
> but this best practice does not talk about metadata in multiple 
> languages.
>