Quoting Jim Pitman <[email protected]>: > > 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.
I don't know how it is covered in RDF, but as you know in libraries corporate authors are not considered an edge case -- they "author" huge numbers of governmental publications as well as corporate publications, and rival humans in their output. OL does not store these as authors, however, so we can be sure that all authors are persons, or some other entity presenting itself as a person. The FOAF Person does not imply a natural person, and can be used for any assertion of person-ness. It does not provide a means to indicate that the person is a pseudonym for one or more natural persons. I would need to look at the latest work on the person data being developed in the library world, but I know that there is a debate on how important it is to link natural persons to the person representation. The edge case, in my mind, is the use of conferences as authors, which is a practice in library data. I still have trouble wrapping my head around that. kc -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
