[Data-modeling] Multi-lingual book (and other) titles

[Niall O'Higgins]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:14:37PM -0800, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> Niall O'Higgins wrote:
> > My question is, should these be considered simply aliases, or is there
> > some more correct way to link these?  I could see arguments for the
> > position that titles in various languages are not merely aliases, and
> > should be handled separately.
> 
> I agree!
> 
> Freebase data is completely internationalized, even though that isn???t 
> yet exposed in the client UI.  Please take a look at my blog post, <URL: 
> http://blog.freebase.com/2007/12/04/internationalization-in-freebase/ >.

This is very cool.  However, might it be worthwhile to have some
notion of original or canonical name, which we could mark?  As opposed
to merely saying "here is what this thing is called in language X", we
could say "here is what this thing is called according to the
author".

This might apply to lots of things, but certainly seems useful for
creative works attributed to a single person.

-- 
Niall O'Higgins
Software Engineer
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.