Wondering if we might want to consider exposing our Alternate Names fields.

We've begun working on a tool to merge dupe authors, and as we do, we pop their 
alternates into the "master" author record.

E.g. http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL77200A/John_Locke

Would that be useful?

g

Karen Coyle wrote:
> Quoting Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com>:
> 
>   While you definitely could use rdf:value,
>> since you are modeling people why not introduce a bit of foaf?
>>
>> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL22022A";>
>>   <foaf:name>Barbara Cartland</rdf:value>
>> </rdf:Description>
> 
> Thanks, Ed. This is really a perfect situation for foaf. I'll spec it  
> that way. (Anand is probably going to be doing the programming.)
> 
> kc
> 
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