[openbiblio-dev] BibJSON and multiple languages

Wed Mar 7 16:54:06 UTC 2012

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Etienne Posthumus <
etienne.posthumus at okfn.org> wrote:

> An alternative would be to allow either simple strings OR objects.
> (similar to what JSON-LD does in
> http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/json-ld-syntax/#string-internationalization
> as mentioned by Mark previously)
>
> This would push the complexity to the software in the parsing and
> displaying, but allow the end-user to still use as simple as possible
> bibjson.
>
>
As an observer +1 parsing the json for language entities and the subsequent
string/bytestrings associated with that if it is formally structured would
be much easier than having to traverse a complex graph of language objects.
IMHO it would also help to keep the data associated consistent.

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