Do we want title capitalization?

[peterdesmet]

How do we want to capitalize titles on the TDWG website? Some examples

Our mission Our Mission

Natural collections descriptions (NCD): A data standard for exchanging data describing natural history collections Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): A Data Standard for Exchanging Data Describing Natural History Collections Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): A Data Standard For Exchanging Data Describing Natural History Collections

Biodiversity informatics curriculum interest group Biodiversity Informatics Curriculum Interest Group

Personally, I'm not a big fan of capitalizing (the heading and font size should be indication enough), but some people might think different. There are different ways of doing this, I just like it to be consistent, so we can add it to the contributing guidelines.

[dkoureas]

Persistence is the most important here.

I would argue that the Words corresponding to given acronyms need to be capitalised though. So I would go with Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): A Data Standard for Exchanging Data Describing Natural History Collections

Kind regards, Dimitris

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How do we want to capitalize titles on the TDWG website? Some examples

Our mission Our Mission

Natural collections descriptions (NCD): A data standard for exchanging data describing natural history collections Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): A Data Standard for Exchanging Data Describing Natural History Collections Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): A Data Standard For Exchanging Data Describing Natural History Collections

Biodiversity informatics curriculum interest group Biodiversity Informatics Curriculum Interest Group

Personally, I'm not a big fan of capitalizing (the heading and font size should be indication enough), but some people might think different. There are different wayshttp://titlecapitalization.com of doing this, I just like it to be consistent, so we can add it to the contributing guidelines.

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[gkampmeier]

I agree absolutely with capitalizing the first letters of words corresponding to given acronyms. After the colon, however I don't think that in general the words following it should be capitalized https://www.grammarly.com/blog/capitalization-after-colons/

As for titles (Our Mission), I think it depends on the heading level and how it is nested on the site. In general, principle headings for the page should have all principle words are capitalized and if a colon is used, follow the rules of capitalization after colons. Subheadings may either be featured as differently styled text and/or with different rules of capitalization, e.g.

Our Mission

In the Beginning

Founders thought

My 2 cents Gail

[peterdesmet]

Thanks!

Any easy to follow guidelines out there we can reference (which cover more than after colon)? E.g. I'm not 100% what "principle words" are.

I'd use the same rules for all headings...

[gkampmeier]

https://capitalizemytitle.com/ where "principle" = "important"

Elsewhere the smallest rule of thumb I've seen is don't capitalize words under three letters, but obviously pronouns and subordinating conjunctions are in a grey area in that simple rule. I would have included the subordinating conjunctions in the categories of things not capitalized.

[peterdesmet]

Ooh, I do like "Sentence case" 😄 It's simple an easy to remember:

The other major type of title capitalization standard is sentence case. Sentence case simply means you capitalize the first letter of a sentence and nothing else. It is the same across all of the four styles.

We could also adopt that, with the note that spelled-out acronyms need to retain their capital letters.

[timrobertson100]

The guidelines we received from our comms at GBIF (ex-BBC guy) was sentence case and capitalize acronyms and names only (e.g. data standards is not (?) used an acronym so wouldn't be randomly capitalized, which Darwin Core would be).

Our mission

In the beginning

Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): A data standard for exchanging data describing natural history collections

GBIF follow UN style guide on spelling and capitalization. It uses UK spelling but chooses -ize for those sorts of words, BUT -yse for e.g. analyse, catalyse.

[gkampmeier]

Sounds like a good fit (has international guidelines befitting an international organization) and will have fewer rules (to please our number one web guru ;) )!

[stanblum]

I'm not sure I'm following your examples, but to my mind, "Darwin Core" is a proper name and should be capitalized.

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Sounds like a good fit (has international guidelines befitting an international organization) and will have fewer rules (to please our number one web guru ;) )!

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[gkampmeier]

I think that Tim said that Darwin Core would be capitalized, but interestingly, we use DwC as an acronym, not DC.

[stanblum]

DC is commonly understood to be Dublin Core

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I think that Tim said that Darwin Core would be capitalized, but interestingly, we use DwC as an acronym, not DC.

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[peterdesmet]

This is an old issue regarding the TDWG (Pelican) website. I am trying to clean those up.

Capitalization was discussed at https://github.com/tdwg/website-migration-2022/issues/27. We opted for Sentence case, not Title Case except for official TDWG names.