Dan, I'm not sure what you are describing with:

> <title xml:lang="ru">
> 	<value>Война и мир</value>
> 	<transliteration standard="?">Voyna i mir</transliteration>
> 	<translation xml:lang="en">
> 		<value>War and Peace</value>
> 		<transliteration standard="none"> Уор енб пеаке</transliteration>
> 	</translation>
> </title>
Is this describing a book in hand that is in Russian?

kc


Dan Matei wrote:
> The discussion was very useful to me. But I'm not quite done yet :-)
>
> Grosso modo we have two kinds of languaged strings:
>
> a) appellations (names, titles, terms, i.e. identifiers);
> b) annotations (statements, notes etc.).
>
> Right ?
>
> For these entities, we have to deal with translations, transliterations and orthographical variations. Right ?
>
>
> So, simplifying (and shortcutting and ignoring - as a simpler case - the annotations), I would suggest things like 
> these:
>
> 1) person appellation:
>
> <name type="real">
> 	<version xml:lang="en">
> 		<segment type="forename">Pieter</namePart>
> 		<segment type="surname">
> 			<variant preferred="true">Bruegel</variant>
> 			<variant>Brueghel</variant>
> 			<variant>Breueghel</variant>
> 		</segment>
> 		the Elder, called Peasant Bruegel, also called  Pieter the Droll
> 	</version>
> 	<version xml:lang="fr">
> 		<segment type="forename">Pieter</namePart>
> 		<segment type="surname">
> 			<variant preferred="true">Bruegel</variant>
> 			<variant>Brueghel</variant>
> 			<variant>Breueghel</variant>
> 		</segment>
> 		le Vieux ou l'Ancien, dit Bruegel le Rustique, dit aussi Bruegel le Drôle
> 	</version>
> 	<version xml:lang="ro">
> 		<segment type="forename">Pieter</namePart>
> 		<segment type="surname">
> 			<variant>Bruegel</variant>
> 			<variant>Brueghel</variant>
> 			<variant preferred="true">Breueghel</variant>
> 		</segment>
> 		cal Bătrân, zis Breughel al Țăranilor
> 	</version>
> <name>
>
>
> 2) person appellation:
>
> <name>Aristotle</name
> <name>
> 	<version xml:lang="en">The Stagirite</version>
> 	<version xml:lang="ro">Stagiritul</version>
> 	<version xml:lang="fr">Le Stagirite</version>
> </name>
>
>
> 3) manifestation appellation:
>
> <title xml:lang="ru">
> 	<value>Война и мир</value>
> 	<transliteration standard="?">Voyna i mir</transliteration>
> 	<translation xml:lang="en">
> 		<value>War and Peace</value>
> 		<transliteration standard="none"> Уор енб пеаке</transliteration>
> 	</translation>
> </title>
>
> (where <value> is the "original" and the others are "transformations").
>
> Is that sophisticated enough ?
>
> Dan
>
> PS.
> Please note that I'm not dealing with different personas (pardon the simplifications), like:
>
> persona a1
> <name>Bill Clinton</name>
> <name type="at birth">William Jefferson Blythe III</name>
>
> persona a2
> <appellation>Bill Clinton (governor of Arkansas, 1979-1981, 1983-1992)</appellation>
>
> persona a3
> <appellation>Bill Clinton (president of the United States, 1993-2001)</appellation>
>
> persona b1
> <appellation>Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (English mathematician)</appellation>
>
> persona b2
> <appellation>Lewis Carroll, (English writer)</appellation>
>
>
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>
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