On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Lawrence Mielniczuk wrote:

> You can start with
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639-2a.html
>

There is also a listing at <http://www.id3.org/iso639-2.html> and at
<http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei/iso639.html>. At the latter the 639
2-character codes are listed first and the 639-2 3-character codes appear
at the bottom of the page.

I'm not sure which of these, if any, could be considered the definitive or
authoritative list. I think the matter of providing an address in the
recently published EAD Application Guidelines was punted upon for that
very reason. This might be a good thing for the maintainers of the EAD
Help Pages to provide a link for? Perhaps Daniel Pitti can confirm whether
or not the list maintained by University of Virginia (the 2nd URL that I
cited above) could be considered authoritative for the purposes of EAD
encoding?

> to get the list of language codes. It seems they are still draft. My
> understanding is that you can have
> multiple languges by adding multiple codes, separated by a space, as
> memory serves.
>

Lawrence Mielniczuk's advice reflects my understanding of how multiple ISO
639-2 language codes would be encoded:
  <archdesc langmaterial="fre eng dut">

Bill

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