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A consortium of international libraries and archives, including the National Library of Ruritania (using a custom transliteration scheme for its Cyrillic holdings for the past 50 years), the Archives Nationales of Gallia (primarily using ISO 233 for Greek transliteration, but also possessing some Cyrillic materials), and the Zentralbibliothek of Germania (newly adopting ISO 9:1995), are embarking on a joint project to create a unified online catalog of their Slavic manuscripts. Each institution has a substantial backlog of catalog records created using different transliteration systems. Furthermore, the project aims to be fully compliant with emerging international standards for digital preservation and metadata interoperability. Recognizing the potential for significant discrepancies and the need for long-term data integrity, how should the project management team approach the challenge of transliterating Cyrillic characters across the diverse legacy systems and future cataloging efforts to ensure maximum findability, interoperability, and preservation of the data, considering the varying levels of technical expertise and resources available at each institution?
Implement a phased approach, prioritizing ISO 9:1995 for new catalog records and gradually migrating legacy data using automated tools and manual review, while establishing a unified transliteration policy developed collaboratively and overseen by a central authority composed of representatives from each organization, with provisions for handling exceptions and edge cases.
Mandate immediate and complete conversion of all existing catalog records to ISO 9:1995 using automated scripts, regardless of potential data loss or inconsistencies, to ensure absolute uniformity across the entire unified catalog from the outset.
Allow each institution to continue using its existing transliteration system to avoid disruption, focusing solely on mapping different transliteration schemes to enable cross-searching, without enforcing a single standard for data storage or exchange.
Abandon the use of transliteration altogether and adopt a machine translation approach, automatically translating all Cyrillic manuscript titles and descriptions into English for the unified catalog, thereby circumventing the complexities of transliteration standards.

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