Bodies translations: use cases and thoughts

Dear all,
now that the new draft of the specs has been published, I would like to
discuss further some aspects that have been dropped along the way. One of
them is languages and translations.

This is my scenario: I have a textual content written in one language. As
curator, I pick an important sentence within that text and I provide,
through annotation, the translations in different languages of that
particular passage. And it could be even a little more complicated and we
might need to keep track of multiple translations for each language
performed at different moments in time or by different agents in different
moments in time.

Does any other member have use cases about translations?

A couple of solutions have been discussed in previous emails exchanges
[1][2][3]:

1) Translations "by oa:Choice". This seems well representing those cases in
which we are modeling an actual choice.

 _:x a oa:Annotation ;
    oa:hasBody <choice1> ;
    oa:hasTarget <ny-times-article> .

    <choice1> a oa:Choice ;
    oa:default<comment-in-french> ;
    oa:item<comment-in-english> ;
    oa:item<comment-in-spanish> .

However, it does not seem fitting the above use case where all the
translations are meant to be provided at the same time.
So I wonder what you think about:

 _:x a oa:Annotation ;
    oa:motivatedBy blah:translating
    oa:hasBody <comment-in-english> ;
    oa:hasBody <comment-in-spanish> .
    oa:hasTarget <ny-times-article> .

2) Translate "by multilingual body":

_:x a oa:Annotation ;
   oa:hasBody <multilingualcomment> ;
   oa:hasTarget <ny-times-article> .

<multilingualcomment> rdfs:label "comment-in-french"@fr ;
   rdfs:label "comment-in-english"@en ;
   rdfs:label "comment-in-spanish"@es .

This could look more explicit, however it introduces a new kind of Body.

Additional use cases? Thoughts?

Best,
Paolo

[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-openannotation/2012Oct/0004.html
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-openannotation/2012Nov/0001.html
[3]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-openannotation/2012Nov/0006.html


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Biomedical Informatics Research & Development
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