Some author names in last,first order could be retrieved from the
original data when library data was the source of the OL record. In
fact, it would be great to connect the OL person names to the Virtual
International Authority File (http://viaf.org) because that would also
provide display forms from other library communities should OL begin
to receive records from non-US library sources. Of course, it was also
be great if VIAF could link up to OL, Amazon, DBPedia, and
LibraryThing for "popular but unofficial" forms of author names.
There are a number of projects that are gathering names of academic
researchers/authors, mainly from academic journals. Here's one:
http://people.bibkn.org/
Since some of these people also write books, that would be an
interesting connection.
kc
Quoting Alan Millar <[email protected]>:
>> Splitting a single name into first names and surname is doable, but not
>> entirely trivial.
>
> And then there are the ones like Dr. John van Smith, Jr. , Ph.D.
>
> I've seen several different orderings of last-name-first for names
> like this. I don't know if grammarians or librarians even agree on
> it, let alone programmers :-)
>
> And the authors list in OL has some fun variations, from trying to
> straighten them back out. My favorite is when it has a role tacked on
> like "editor in chief" to top it off...
>
> - Alan
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