Thomas, they say "YMMV" but I looked at those pages and 1) don't see a
problem with listing the books under the name of the author as listed on
the book (if I'm look for Ernest Drake books I'm looking for Ernest
Drake books, and I get books written under that name 2) I don't see
where it says that Steer is an editor. The entries I see read:
The Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons (Ologies)
<http://www.amazon.com/The-Dragonology-Handbook-Practical-Dragons/dp/076362814X/ref=la_B001H6ELHO_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1337112787&sr=1-7>
by Dugald Steer (Apr 12, 2005)
which is how title/author entries are shown in Amazon.
The "fake" biography is a biography for the persona - the pseudonym. I
find that perfectly acceptable.
When I do the same search in WorldCat I retrieve some books with Dugald
Steer and some by Ernest Drake, but no explanation that would lead me to
believe that they occupy the same human body (nor do I especially care,
since I'm looking for an author, not a human body). I do not seem to
have a way to retrieve only the writer I am interested in, however.
The wikipedia article is a stub, and will undoubtedly be expanded if he
has fans, but it points to the publisher web site that gives additional
information, including that he writes under the other name.
Sorry, but I really don't think that the library data does more for me
as a user than what I can get elsewhere, and in fact there are
explanations (like linking the pseudonym to the book series he writes
under) that I don't get from an authority record.
kc
On 5/15/12 12:23 PM, Brenndorfer, Thomas wrote:
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Thanks, Thomas. I took a quick look at the JSC document. (I have the FRBR
book and will look through it. I didn't realize it was up on
scribd.) The JSC doc has 3 use cases that I will add to my list. I suspect
that every one of them can be resolved without resorting to the library
catalog. For example, the one on finding other books by an author -- I can
think of lots of ways to answer that question that might occur to today's
users (Amazon, Wikipedia, the author's web site),
The user who isn't successful searching for a person's name as found on a book
may have this kind of trouble:
A library catalog distinguishes between Dugald Steer and his pseudonym, Ernest
Drake.
Amazon is not of much help, as it lists a fake biography of Ernest Drake:
http://www.amazon.com/Ernest-Drake/e/B001NPIIZ0/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
with this skimpy author page for Dugald Steer
http://www.amazon.com/Dugald-Steer/e/B001H6ELHO/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_2
and no cross reference. Amazon appears to be quite convinced that Ernest Drake
is an author and Dugald Steer is an editor.
Wikipedia entry for Dugald Steer doesn't mention that the name "Ernest Drake"
can appear on his books:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Steer
Only in the library catalog authority record for Dugald Steer do we find the
full magnitude of what is happening:
100 1 ‡aSteer, Dugald
400 1 ‡aSteer, Dug
500 1 ‡wnnnc‡aDrake, Ernest
500 1 ‡wnnnc‡aSands, Emily
500 1 ‡wnnnc‡aEvans, Hestia
500 1 ‡wnnnc‡aLubber, William,‡d1965-
500 1 ‡aHardcastle, Henry,‡d1965-
500 1 ‡wnnnc‡aGray, Allen
The FRBR/FRAD user tasks live or die based upon the available data elements. If
the data is missing (whether in a library catalog or anywhere else) then the
user task fails.
Thomas Brenndorfer
Guelph Public Library
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