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Repository for "What is a Book in the 21st Century" GR8975, Spring 2017
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punctuation to separate fields with hierarchical values #48

Open thuchacz opened 7 years ago

thuchacz commented 7 years ago

Do we want to use

  1. Library of Congress standards (e.g., molding--crayfish)
  2. semicolon separated syntax (e.g., molding; molding crayfish) — and what of redundancy?
  3. separate fields (e.g., "Generic Activity: molding" ; "Specific Activity: crayfish")
tcatapano commented 7 years ago

I'd recommend using the first form. Binding the two terms together with two dashes (no spaces). The first the broader term, the second the narrower term.