Robert Maxwell wrote:
[R Maxwell] I do not agree that authority records in some form will still be needed in a FRBR-ized catalog. If each entity has one and only one entity record in the database, then that one entity record serves all the purposes of the current authority records. When cataloging an edition of Homer's Iliad in English I would need at least: one work entity record (Iliad) one person entity record for the author (Homer)
I think perhaps when Laurence Creider says authority records in some form will still be needed, he was thinking of this person entity record and work entity record. That is perhaps an "authority record in some form". Laurence, can you confirm? This is certainly how I've seen people talk about this sort of thing before, assuming that the person entity _is_ the evolution of the person authority record, and thus considered "some form of" authority record. Jonathan
