[jats-list] Coding non-Gregorian years

Subject: [jats-list] Coding non-Gregorian years
From: tokizane <tokizane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:27:47 +0900
Dear everybody,

We are digitizing old journal articles in Japanese among
which publication years of cited references contain non-Gregorian
years, i.e., Japanse Emperor years.  This will become more
challenging if we are to code humanity artilces such as those of
history or literature.

Thus we, SPJ Japan, would like to propose a new attribute,
@calender for <year>, <month> and <day>.  Examples are as follows.

<year alt="2011" calendar="Islamic" xml:lang="en">1433</year>
<year alt="1965" calendar="Japanese" xml:lang="ja">f-eece94</year>

Please comment on our proposal.

Best regards,

Soichi Tokizane
Aichi University

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