[osis-core] Structure for the value of <identifier type="OSIS">

[Todd Tillinghast]

One of the key items that needs to be resolved prior to the release of
OSIS.2.1 is the structure for the value of <identifier type="OSIS">.

You can look back at past posts for the details but the main issue is
related to how fall back would work related to the selected structure.

The proposed structure would consist of the following "." separated
elements.
Proposed Elements:
1) Type of document: Bible, Sermon, Commentary, ReferenceSystem, ...
with these values defined by the OSIS committee.
2) Language: ISO two or three letter languages in lower case or
Ethnologue three letter code in upper case
3) Organization/Publisher code: ABS for the American Bible Society, WBTI
for Wycliffe Bible Translators International, DanielToddTillinghast for
me as individual, etc...
4) Title or commonly accepted code for the work (KJV, NIV, NASB, ...)
5) Date/Year
6) Other values used by the organization

Examples:
Bible.es.ABS.RVR.1960
Bible.es.ABS.RVR.1995
Bible.en.IBS.NIV.1984
Bible.QUT.WBTI.QUT.1997
Sermon.en.DanielToddTillinghast.WhyPigsFly.2004

The benefit is that all values after the Organization/Publisher code are
managed by the publisher.  However, an issue arises with works that are
published by multiple organizations such as the KJV, RVR, etc....

In the case of the RVR if someone were to simply specify
Bible.es.ABS.RVR it would be up to the user or software to pick one of
the two available editions.  However, you would exclude
Bible.es.?.RVR.1909 as an option.

OPTIONS:
OPTION 1: Use the form Bible.es.RVR.1960.ABS (Puts the organization last
for cases where there are multiple groups claiming to have a year
dependant version of the same work)

OPTION 2: Use the form Bible.es.RVR.ABS.1960 (Puts the date/year last
because date/year is most often dependant of the organization
publishing)

OPTOIN 3: Use the form Bible.es.ABS.RVR.1960 (Puts the organization
before the tile and date/year because in almost all cases other than
public domain texts the values are assigned by the organization and the
organization is the most important value.  This will be the case for the
largest number of translations where what is important to know is the
language and who did the translation.)

For cases other than Bibles I suspect the organization is the most
important element between the organization, title, and date/year.

How do we settle on a solution?

Todd