transliteration question

[William Ryan]

The website works fine. Congratulations. But I still don't quite see the 
transliteration problem. If you use LoC without diacritics, which most 
do, don't you get Kyiv and Mliiv? As to the use of the apostrophe, yes, 
it can look odd to someone coming to this convention for the first time, 
but the whole point about conventions is that they are conventions, and 
almost all use the apostrophe. LoC has become the dominant romanization 
system in the English-speaking world very largely because the OCLC 
database, whether we liked it or not, became the main database used for 
library catalogue automation, and thus publishers prefer it. Some 
publishers at one time used a prime (minute sign) instead of an 
apostrophe but I think this is rare nowadays. The worst possible thing 
to do is to invent yet another system!
Will Ryan




nataliek at UALBERTA.CA wrote:
> For all of you who would like to look at the website as it is now, 
> please go to  http://projects.tapor.ualberta.ca/UkraineAudio/
>
> And to respond to the questions posed so far.  The website was 
> intended for the widest possible use.  Indeed, it has been used by all 
> sorts of people,  from the sophisticated scholar, to the curious 
> armchair ethnographer.  I use it as a tool for my own research.  
> Others have used for research as well.  And then there have been all 
> sorts of other uses that I know about and many others that have not 
> been reported to me.  One person extracted the songs.  Others have 
> pulled out the stories.  Others are curious about a particular 
> village, perhaps one to which they have an ancestral connection.  Some 
> have used it for language practice, but most of the texts are in 
> dialect and language instruction was never the purpose of the site.
>
> Natalie Kononenko
> Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
> Editor, Folklorica
> University of Alberta
> Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
> 200 Arts Building
> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
> Phone: 780-492-6810
> Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/
>
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