Again, modelling is a matter of personal judgement and use cases. To me it's quite appropriate to model person-subject and person-person as different entities -- so long as there is also a relationship relating them. It might even be preferable, not sure.
Assuming OL _knows_ that a person as a subject is related to the person-as-person (or is that person-as-author?). If the OL database doesn't 'know' this, then there aren't really any options anyway. If it does, I think it's fine to have them be different instances of different entities, so long as they are related by an appropriate relation. Jonathan ________________________________________ From: ol-tech-boun...@archive.org [ol-tech-boun...@archive.org] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle [kco...@kcoyle.net] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:51 PM To: ol-tech@archive.org Subject: Re: [ol-tech] Author RDF for testing Quoting Erik Hetzner <ehetz...@gmail.com>: > In other words, we have a Person (e.g., [2]), a Person as > bibliographic entity (as in FRBR), and finally one or more > bibliographic records about the person, (e.g., [1]). Do I have that > right? I was looking at it that way, in particular because the OL gives subject/person a different ID from author. But then George popped in saying that it would be good for authors and subjects to be the same thing, presumably a person, and since she's the project lead... well, "make it so." So I'm coding authors as foaf:persons since that appears to be the desired direction for OL. In general, I consider metadata identifiers to identify the metadata, not what the metadata is about, but that's my personal bias and clearly others feel differently. In my world view, people do not have identifiers, but information about people does. Of course, I live in the city named for Bishop Berkeley, the philosopher whose theories can be summarized as "there is no reality, get over it." :-) kc -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
