On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Karen Coyle<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm not sure the "scripts" solution works. You can have a title that is a
> mixture of scripts. It seems to me that the distinction is between
> transcribed (from the piece) and transliterated.
>
This is a really good point. I guess I have two concerns:
1) "transliteration" may not always equal "romanization" (so simply
having @romanization as an option may not be enough), and there may be
instances where one might wish to provide more than one
transliteration at a time;
2) I'm generally opposed to attributes with extended textual content,
especially in instances such as this, where doing so privileges one
version of a line over another and also limits the number of variants
you can support (I'm coming from the TEI community, in the latest
version of TEI we made a conscious decision to use attributes only for
*code* rather than *content*, and I think it's better for it. MODS
isn't TEI of course, and it could be that the model isn't relevant,
but it colours my interpretation of it.)
I just saw Jon's post as I was thinking more about how to formulate
this, and he says essentially what I'm thinking. I'll keep my own
points here, but consider this a bit of support for his last message.
Dot
> From Unicode page on supported scripts:
>
> "In many cases, a single script may serve to write tens or even hundreds of
> languages (e.g., the Latin script). In other cases only one language employs
> a particular script (e.g., Hangul, which is used only for the Korean
> language). The writing systems for some languages may also make use of more
> than one script; for example, Japanese traditionally makes use of the Han
> (Kanji), Hiragana, and Katakana scripts, and modern Japanese usage commonly
> mixes in the Latin script as well."
> http://www.unicode.org/standard/supported.html
>
> kc
>
>
> Dot Porter wrote:
>>
>> I second Dan's suggestion - using an element with @script attribute
>> for each original/transliteration of a name (vel sim.). Not only does
>> this not privilege one 'version' over the other, it also allows for
>> more than two 'versions', multiple possible transliterations into
>> scripts other than the roman script.
>>
>> Dot
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Dan Matei<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jon Stroop <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:46:42 -0400
>>>
>>> I would prefer:
>>>
>>> <name type="personal" authority="naf" script="Arab" lang="ara">
>>> <namePart>
>>> <version script="Arabic">طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد</version>
>>> <version script="Latin" transliterationStandard="?">Ṭūsī,
>>> Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad</version>
>>> </namePart>
>>> <role>
>>> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="code">aut</roleTerm>
>>> </role>
>>> </name>
>>>
>>> In this way: a) no (even more) privileged position for the Latin script,
>>> b) the transliteration standard is revealed.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Jon
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dan Matei
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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