Re: [Refdb-users] corporate names

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

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 03:24  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
>
> I assume you're talking about risx export (vs. support)?. The content
> model in the DTD looks like:
>
> <!ELEMENT author (name|(lastname?,firstname?,middlename*,suffix?))>

Yeah, I caught that later.

> so if you write risx datasets you can use the name element for
> corporate names and such. However, names are currently handled as
> strings internally, so the export routines do not have the faintest
> idea that a name once was a corporate name. This is a shortcoming of
> the current data model which can be fixed. I assume that MODS has a
> similar if not better content model for author names so the effort
> wouldn't be wasted.

Well, MODS does something like this:

<name type="corporate">
	<namePart>Blah Blah Blah</namePart>
</name>

In my experiments with a new -- more input-friendly -- schema, I was 
thinking of:

<name type="corporate">
	<fullname>Blah Blah Blah</fullname>
</name>


> I've been working on improved support for RIS as understood by
> RefMan10. This will require a change of the database schema anyway,
> and this may be an appropriate time to fix the name handling as well.
>
> regards,
> Markus
>
> Bruce D'Arcus writes:
>>
>> I just realized something.  The risx support has no concept of
>> corporate names, which seems a problem to me.  Example:
>>
>> <author><lastname>U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental
>> Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities</lastname></author>
>>
>> I realize ris/refman likewise has no such concept, but I wonder if we
>> can say if there is only one 'name' then the following might be 
>> better:
>>
>> <author><fullname>U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental
>> Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities</fullname></author>
>>
>> Bruce
>
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> Markus Hoenicka
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