(last updated 2010-02-09) LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Frank Bennett 2. E-mail address of requester: bennett at law.nagoya-u.ac.jp 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: heploc Description: Hepburn romanization, Library of Congress method Added: 2009-10-01 Deprecated: 2010-02-07 Preferred-Value: alalc97 Prefix: ja-Latn-hepburn Comments: Preferred tag is ja-Latn-alalc97 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: This variant subtag has been superseded by the generic subtag alalc97, which is intended "to apply to text presented in the Library of Congress romanization, widely used in English-language academic works that discuss or employ sources that use non-Latin scripts". (quotation from the alalc97 filing) 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): "American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html" (from the alalc97 filing) 6. Any other relevant information: "This romanization is used in library bibliographic systems across the United States and encompasses the standard scholarly transliteration systems of many disciplines." (from the alalc97 filing) (file created 2010-02-09)