Deborah Fritz wrote:
> Title: Poems from Cuba
> Other title information for title: alone against the sea
> Parallel title: Poesia desde Cuba
> Other title information for parallel title: solo contra el mar
> First statement of responsibility: Raul Mesa
> Subsequent statement of responsibility: edited with a preface by Harley D.
> Oberhelman
> Subsequent statement of responsibility: translated from the Spanish by James
> Hoggard
>
>
I REALLY dislike the labeled displays. I think they get in the way of
the text you want users to focus on, the actual information you are
wanting to convey. What would be wrong with:
Poems from Cuba, alone against the sea. (Poesia desde Cuba, solo contra
el mar) by Raul Mesa. Edited with a preface by Harley D. Oberhelman.
Translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard.
After all, this isn't DATA it's language, phrases, sentences. We don't do:
Paragraph:
Sentence:
We have simple conventions (indenting, full stops) that people
understand. Can't we continue to use those? Can't we say: "Published by
Grove Press in 1967?" It's so ironic that we have both failed to treat
our data like data, relying much to heavily on text, but then we make it
look too data-ish when we display it to users.
kc
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Received on Mon Mar 16 2009 - 16:09:53 EDT