George Oates <[email protected]> wrote:

> If there's a way to "emphasize the person-ness" in author RDF in the 
> meantime, 
> I'm all for it.

I strongly support this, and encourage adoption of an extensible system of 
placeholders for 
author identifiers whenever available. If there is already such a system in 
place or contemplated, 
I'd appreciate a pointer.

The edge case of corporate authors needs to be accomodated. An instructive
example is Nicolas Bourbaki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

http://openlibrary.org/search?q=Nicolas+Bourbaki

I note that 

http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL5038897A/Bourbaki_Nicolas_pseud.

hints that "Nicolas Bourbaki" is a pseudonym for an organization, while 

http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL145730A/Nicolas_Bourbaki

does not.  More straighforwardly, you may have corporate authors like 
Committees, W3C, etc.
I'd be interested to see how RDF experts would accommodate this fork.

--Jim

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