[OGo-Translation] Correct use of "degree" and "job_title"

[Helge Hess]

Hi,

please do not try to increase your priority by posting messages twice. 
I have a tendency to mark such as spam ...

On 5. Mrz 2005, at 17:24 Uhr, Alessandro Amici wrote:
> key  		german  		english	italian
> degree 		akadem. Grad  Degree 	Qalifica
> job_title 	Funktion  	Position 	Funzione
>
> now, the direct translation of "akadem. Grad" would be "Titolo di 
> studio", but
> in italy everyone and his dog has a special salutation title: layers 
> (avv.),
> engineers (ing.), architects (arch.), accountants (comm.), etc, so it 
> seems
> quite natural to overload the "degree" field as a general purpose
> job/academic title (translated simply to "Titolo").

The degree field is supposed to be used in "addressing" people. Eg in 
German if you write a letter to a PhD, you'll need to include the 
degree in the addressing, eg:
   "Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Amici"
where "Dr." is the degree. Notably you only do this for PhD's and up.

You would never write:
   "Sehr geehrter Herr Vorstand Amici"
where "Vorstand" would be a business title.

> that would map easily to
> the LDAP attribute "title", but apparently the postgres scripts by 
> whitemice
> actually map OGo job_title to LDAP title instead (i couldn't find the 
> xml-rpc
> sync script to check the mapping there).

I think mapping job_title to title makes sense, this is how it seems to 
be documented:
   http://www.it.ufl.edu/projects/directory/ldap-schema/attr-TITLE.html
   "Working title, as opposed to personell title. e.g. "Project leader", 
etc."

> even asuming that this is just a bug in the postgres script, i'm still
> confused since (as pointed out by Sven Wilhelm recently) the 
> "Position" of a
> person depend on the company he is referred to, so "Funzione" doesn't 
> sound
> as the good translation for "Position" in the general sense, but i'm 
> not sure
> of what the purpose of the filed is in the first place.

Yes, the job_title actually should be a field of the person<->company 
association table. AFAIK there is already an enh-request for that.

OGo currently behaves just like LDAP - it can't represent title's bound 
to companies.

Greets,
   Helge
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