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

[Robert Cook]

This seems to be the most general idea.

I'd be curious to see how it is used.  Imagine the edit wars on cities  
in Europe, for instance, that have been traded among countries with  
different languages.

Although I bet the few Esperanto-native movies would have this  
property well filled out ;-)

R

On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Yuriy Grinberg wrote:

> I would probably agree with "original title" for a creative work.
> But to me it seems that there is a more fundamental issue of the
> "native" name/title for ANY topic in the system.
> Consider the simplest example - peoples names - there is always the
> native language/script for the persons name.
> I would propose that ANY topic in freebase have a "native language( or
> script)" property that links it to
> the appropriate native /lang/?? _OR_ there may be reasons to link to a
> /language/human_language/?? instead
> Lets say for example a topic on myself would be titled:
>
> Yuriy Grinberg
> [native lang RU - Юрий Гринберг]
>
> where "native RU" may be omitted or displayed as an icon or shown in a
> mouse over,
> and of course the UI would have to support input/edit of this property
>
> Yuriy Grinberg
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