Translating and Transliterating Names

Sometimes names of contributors to a release, recording or work need to be translated or transliterated. Example include names of composers, for example: Sergei Rachmaninoff (English), Serguéi Rajmáninov (Spanish) or Сергей Рахманинов (Russian, his mother tongue). 

This can be communicated, in ERN for example as 

<PartyName LanguageAndScriptCode="en">
    <FullName>Sergei Rachmaninoff </FullName>
</PartyName>
 
<PartyName LanguageAndScriptCode="es">
    <FullName>Serguéi Rajmáninova</FullName>
</PartyName>
 
<PartyName LanguageAndScriptCode="ru"IsInOriginalLanguage ="true">
    <FullName>Серге́й Рахма́нинов</FullName>
</PartyName>

In some cases it may be important or helpful to know which of these names is the “original”, i.e. the version that is not translated or transliterated.

ERN 4.3 introduces a flag IsInOriginalLanguage that allows signalling which of these tags contains the “original” name:

<PartyName LanguageAndScriptCode="ru"IsInOriginalLanguage ="true">
    <FullName>Сергей Рахманинов</FullName>
</PartyName>

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