[jats-list] Title language in multilingual documents

["Chiara Del Vescovo chiara.delvescovo@xxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chandi and Vincent,

Thank you for your responses so far! I just want to point out that I am not
looking at translations here, so the element <trans-title> and the attribute
@lang-group are out of scope. I am looking for the standardised way to express
the language of the title in a multilingual document. And more in general, to
understand how to make sure that a screen reader can pronounce a text
correctly.

Vincent, thank you for the insight on browsers and systems mostly being unable
to process the "mul" value in @xml:lang, this is very interesting, and
something that was already on my "to investigate" list. I quite like the
solution that makes use of a specific language code as the "fall-back"
language of a document regardless of whether it's a mono- or a multi-lingual
document. Indeed, there is already the possibility to use multiple
<content-language> tags to express that a document is multi-lingual, and your
interpretation helps decoupling the two fields.
I cannot really see how the value "mul" can be used at all, since:

  *
The presence of multiple <content-language> elements already means that a
document is multi-lingual, and
  *
"mul" doesn't provide any information about the language of any text, so it's
not used to process text either.

I think I'll recommend OUP not to use the "mul" value at all. Unless someone
here has a convincing use-case for it, in which case I'm all ears!

Just for completeness, BITS recommends using the IANA language code list
available at
https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-reg
istry. Do you have any recommended practice to share regarding this list?

I also have a question on how to express the language of an extended part of
text in a multilingual document (my understanding is that this is provided by
using the element <sec>), but I think this is not in scope with this thread.

Thank you again!
Chiara

Chiara Del Vescovo

Senior Content Data Model Architect | Operations

Oxford University Press

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