Collection titles 1.5 2006/05/20 22:54:08 GMT-5 2006/05/23 01:31:27.606 GMT-5 Joseph E. Grimes joe_grimes@sil.org Joseph E. Grimes joe_grimes@sil.org main title short title Every collection has a title and a short title.

Title and short title on the Collection panel of JG-SulSel12.

Every collection has a title that is useful for other linguists, like Austronesian or Southern Utoaztecan. The title indicates the spread of languages you are investigating.You prefix your Wordcorr ID to the title with a hyphen. This heads off a potential bad situation where thirty Wordcorr users have thirty different collections all called “Austronesian,” and some of them are trying to collaborate with others.Wordcorr asks you for a short title for the collection, which also carries your Wordcorr ID prefix. This usually makes a good file name too, when you convert your Wordcorr database to an XML file for safekeeping or collaboration with another linguist. So a JG-Austronesian collection might have a short title like JG-AN that would readily identify it to any specialist in Austronesian languages.