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On Aug 15, 2013, at 4:48 AM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:

> http://bibframe.org/documentation/bibframe-usecases/
> 
> I try to read this stuff.  But the former English teacher in me causes
> me to be distracted by the writing style.
> 
> For example, in the following from the above paper, why both "e.g."
> and "for example" in the same sentence?  Why an opening parenthesis,
> but no closing one?  (Not the examples of the latter.)
> 
> "(e.g. W3C's PROV work for example might be a useful component to
> integrate regarding Provenance."
> 
> Then there are multiple acronyms not spelled out when first used, and
> specialist use of words such as "serialization".  I appreciate
> Wikipedia:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization
> 
> One can find the three meanings of "collation": a meal, bibliographic
> physical description, and arrangement of information.  Not all computer
> and library jargon has made it into such sources however. making these
> discussion mainly among an in group.
> 
> I miss Michael Gorman's English writing ability.
> 
> 
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