Øyvind Eide wrote:
There have been talks in Norway to create a person number (similar to
the general person number for living persons) for all historical
persons mentioned in sources. Then there will be a URN for John
Smith. Finding out which of the co-named persons we are interested in
is still a difficult problem, of course.
Another problem we want to solve by coref, that is not solved with
distributed use of thesauri or other systems using stable names
(URNs), is the link to each separate reference (reference in the
meaning of e.g. a string in a specific text). The thesaurus or the URN
administrating unit will not know of all federated systems linking to
it, and of course not all the separate places in the sources held by
the units linking to it.
So, this is very relevant for the coref WG, especially in defining the
line between when to use a coref approach and when to use other
solutions, such as thesaurus based systems, and when and how to use
them together.
Absolutely. The ultimate way to identify a person mentioned in a source is
via the source itself. It is the " 'he' , word nr. 576, in ISBN 76476-706-757"
or so. Reading one document, we normally can infer the set of persons mentioned.
Outside the scope of one document, the mess begins. So, in the worst case,
such a person number must be relative to a particular document. Hence, the
identifier
should better carry the document's scope.
Martin
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