[WEB4LIB] Re: spelling conventions

[Sloan, Bernie]

I'll add "metadata" to the list (no caps).

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895  
Fax: (217) 333-6355
Email: bernies at uillinois.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Susan Hensley [SMTP:hensley at sonoma.lib.ca.us]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 30, 1998 12:39 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Re: spelling conventions
> 
> 
> Web Lexicography in the making!
> I would also like to know the correct way to refer to:
> 
> Meta Data 
> 
> MetaData
> 
> META DATA 
> 
> ??
> 
> I've seen all of these in print and after a while, nothing looks "right" -
> 
> 
> Susan Hensley
> *******************************************
> Internet Librarian
> Sonoma County Library
> hensley at sonoma.lib.ca.us
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> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Kevin W. Bishop wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This is something of a silly question, but what is the convention?
> > 
> > Internet / internet
> > Web / web
> > Webpage / webpage // Web page / web page 
> > Website / website // Web site / web site
> > 
> > I'm consistently inconsistent with the capitalization and spacing of
> these
> > words and would like to know if there is a standard style for the sake
> of
> > developing "how-to" [w]eb()pages about [w]eb()page development.  
> > 
> > -kb
> > 
> > (I think it should be "Internet" and "Web", but as for the others ...
> ??)
> > 
> > 
> > __________________________________________
> > 
> > Kevin W. Bishop                              
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> >