-----Original Message----- From: John Attig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:39:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [RDA-L] The Person entity [was: Comments from Martha M. Yee ... 1 of 2]
> > However, I would note that in 99.9% of the cases, the bibliographic > identity and the biological person are identical. I would hate to > torture the model in order to deal with that 0.1% that raise > problems. Perhaps what we need is an element (data about data) that > signals when the entity represents only the bibliographic identity > and should therefore not be assumed to map to person entities in > other data sources. I am not so sure that only 0.1% cases are problematic in libraryland. a) IMHO several authors creating a work form a bibliographic identity [BI]: Many will agree that Ellery Queen is a BI. If so, Ilf and Petrov form a BI too (even if they use 2 names). If so, The Cohen Brothers form a BI. If so, Nicolas Bourbaki ... If so, Rolling Stones form a BI ? When we start to call them 'corporate bodies' ? If 3 persons or more ? :-) b) IMHO, a person not speaking/writing (exactlly) for herself/himself forms a BI. E.g. Bill Clinton as Governor of Arkansas; Bill Clinton as Democrat presidential candidate; Bill Clinton as President of US. However (as a computer person) I do not see big difficulties to handle such complex BIs in practical bibliographic data models. > > John Dan Matei ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Matei, director CIMEC - Institutul de Memorie Culturala [Institute for Cultural Memory] Piata Presei Libere nr. 1, CP 33-90 013701 Bucuresti [Bucharest], Romania tel. (+40-21) 317 90 72; fax (+40-21) 317 90 64 www.cimec.ro
