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Meaning and purpose
The language qualifier describes the language in which metadata is recorded. This information will be needed to support future international federated registries.
Language may be recorded for the following elements:
- name
- physical address
- spatial location
- relation description
- subject
- description
RIF-CS best practice guidelines
The ANDS Registry accepts language codes based on RFC 5646 Tags for identifying languages. Please contact services@ands.org.au if you have any questions about using language tags.
More information about language tags:
Language tags in HTML and XML | IANA Language subtag registry
RIF-CS examples
<name type="primary" xml:lang="en">
<namePart><Australian National Data Service>
</namePart>
</name>
These examples show how to use the codes to describe a party name which has US English and French versions.
<name type="primary" xml:lang="en-US">
<namePart><Organization for Standardization>
</namePart>
</name>
<name type="primary" xml:lang="fr">
<namePart><Organisation internationale de normalisation>
</namePart>
</name>
| Date | Change history |
| April 2010 | Consultation draft |
| 26 October 2010 | First web publication |
| 21 July 2011 | New links added to xml:lang information, simplified explanations |
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