[libdb-develop] Re: On Naming A Person and The Cultural And Familiar Divide

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

Ed asked:

>  Probably one of the main reasons why Terry Rawlings is not in a 700 is
>  because someone was going to have to look up an authority record for 
> them
>  and couldn't be bothered! I think that library cataloging standards 
> are often
>  counter productive, and that using Amazon and IMDB as models 
> eventhough all we
>  have is their interface, and we will have to guess at the underlying 
> framework,
>  a reverse engineering process of sorts.
>
>  So what was the question again? :)

Answer: how to properly model people and their names?

It's a big issue -- which is exactly why there are authority records to 
begin with -- particularly if you're interested in bibliographic 
metadata for my (scholarly) needs.  Yes, I know, this is starting as a 
movie DB; but why not be ambitious?

See this for an RDF-specific discussion:

     http://rdfweb.org/topic/NamesInFoaf

Bruce