> Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: > There are two possible values for author: the author ID and the author > name. It seems to me that both are of interest -- the author ID would > be another entry point for getting more info, but the author name > allows immediate use/display of the work data. Would it be useful to > have both? Or is the author ID enough?
I agree with Jim. In an ideal world I think both is preferable...and its doable from an rdf perspective. Clients would get a label to display to a user, without having to resolve another identifier. And they would also get a nice shiny author identifier to learn more about the author, and for other people to reference in their data. You can see this pattern in the lcsh data at id.loc.gov: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh95000541.rdf See that the concept is connected to its narrower, broader and related concepts using the URI, but that the rdf also contains minimal descriptions of these related URIs that include a skos:prefLabel? This way someone can display the immediate network of concepts without having to make a bunch of HTTP requests. But basically whatever is easiest right now to fix the error of displaying: <ol:authors>http://openlibrary.org.rdf</ol:authors> would be best I guess. Thanks for asking! //Ed _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list Ol-tech@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org
