[jats-list] how to best write multilingual permissions

["Середа Владимир Владимирович vladimir.sereda@xxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings! Kind people at NISO suggested I post the question to this list, so
here I am.

We're going to use JATS v. 1.4 (archiving) for the purpose of keeping the
metadata of published scientific articles in a standardized way. One of the
main reasons for using JATS is its multilingual capabilities.

It is not clear for us what is the preferred way of writing bi- and
multilingual permissions. For instance,  for two languages where the copyright
belongs to the same author whose  name should be written in a native language
and in English, the  permissions element(s) can be written as two repeated
permissions:

<permissions xml:lang="en">
\x9A <copyright-statement>Copyright \xBF 2022 Author</copyright-statement>
\x9A <copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
\x9A <copyright-holder>Author</copyright-holder>
\x9A <ali:free_to_read/>
\x9A <license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/";>
\x9A \x9A
<ali:license_ref>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ali:license
_ref>
\x9A </license>
</permissions>
<permissions xml:lang="ru">
\x9A <copyright-statement>Copyright \xBF 2022
\xE1\xD7\xD4\xCF\xD2</copyright-statement>
\x9A <copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
\x9A <copyright-holder>\xE1\xD7\xD4\xCF\xD2</copyright-holder>
\x9A <ali:free_to_read/>
\x9A <license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/";>
\x9A \x9A
<ali:license_ref>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ali:license
_ref>
\x9A </license>
</permissions>

It can also be specified as one permissions with the child elements in
different langs:

<permissions>
\x9A <copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright \xBF 2022
Author</copyright-statement>
\x9A <copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright \xBF 2022
\xE1\xD7\xD4\xCF\xD2</copyright-statement>
\x9A <copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
\x9A <copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Author</copyright-holder>
\x9A <copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">\xE1\xD7\xD4\xCF\xD2</copyright-holder>
\x9A <ali:free_to_read/>
\x9A <license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/";>
\x9A \x9A
<ali:license_ref>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ali:license
_ref>
\x9A </license>
</permissions>

Jeff from NISO suggested that the "first example - with multiple permissions
elements is a cleaner way to tag the multi-language content". I think that the
second example is more succinct and conveys the message that there is actually
one permission that can be written in different languages. The second example
breaks the JATS4R validator, but I've been informed that "JATS4R has not
addressed the newer multi-language recommendations in the JATS Standard" so it
doesn't mean much in this case.

I'm interested in hearing what do you think, and what would you suggest.

Yours,
V