[osis-core] OSIS book abbreviations

[Todd Tillinghast]

> 
> > > If I ask to see Bible.NRSVA.Esth.2.1, which version do I expect to
> > > see? Is there a way of specifing one or the other?
> >
> > When "Bible.NRSVA" is defined, it would have to be defined as
> > one or the other.  A second work that represents the
> > reference system that differs would be have to defined as
> > either "Bible.NRSVA.SomeOtherName" or "Bible.SomeOtherName".
> >
> > The trouble would come in that it seems that there are two
> > differing naming systems in use that are commonly known by
> > the same name (NRSVA). I don't think there is much of a
> > remedy for that problem outside of not using "Bible.NRSVA".
> 
> Well, when I open the NRSVA, I see several different books,
> including Genesis, Esther, and GreekEsther. If we were truly
> trying to create a reference system for NRSVA, we'd presumably
> want a code for each book there in print, no matter the source
> or relation of books to each other.
> 
> But what we seem actually to be defining is an abstract
> reference system that doesn't exactly match the NRSVA. That's
> fine, though slightly confusing if we call it Bible.NRSVA.
> 
> -Harry

Harry,

>From "The fact that the NRSVA has translations from both just means it
has two versions of the same book, not two distinct ones." in an earlier
post, I understood that there are two different versions of the NRSVA.  

IF there are two versions of NRSVA both "defining" different naming
systems, then any of the following options would work:
1) "Bible.NRSVA.versionName1" and "Bible.NRSVA.versionName2".  (A
reference to the "abstract work" "Bible.NRSVA" would have to be resolved
using mapping to one of the specific works.)  (It would be possible to
define "Bible.NRSVA" as equal to one of the two versions.)
2) Use "Bible.NRSVA1" and "Bible.NRSVA2" for the two works.

Does this make sense?  

Todd