-----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
> > [John Attig] Regarding Karen's second paragraph above, I believe that the > person > entity is intended to be universal, but the attributes (particularly > name usage) do reflect information taken from particular manifestations. [Karen Coyle] Attributes of the person entity? How would you connect that information to the particular manifestations they are taken from? Basically, how would you say that for this work, the author was affiliated with Harvard, whereas for another work, the author was affiliated with Stanford? Would that be in the person record or the work record? [Bob Maxwell] No, I would say that the person entity record would have as attributes that person X was affiliated with Harvard at a particular time, and affiliated with Stanford at a particular time. I wouldn't say that "for this work author affiliated with such and such an institution" would be an attribute of the person entity, though we might get evidence for the time spans of attributes listing affiliations from information we glean from certain works (or manifestations, etc.). So the person entity record might well have a place to record the evidence for the attributes (indeed, I certainly hope there will be such a place), but the evidence itself is not in my opinion an attribute of the person entity.
