In a world where we need to disambiguate text strings, uniqueness is a
valid strategy. In a world where a unique identifier represents a
non-unique string in data, uniqueness at the string level becomes
irrelevant. We are [still] in the first world, but I hope not forever.
Diane
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> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:21 PM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> wrote:
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>> The marvelous Mary said:
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>> >It has been suggested that the 100$a does not need to be unique
>> >because other data/fields supply the disambiguation information.
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>> IMNSHO that should even more be the case for 245, even with the loss
>> of the GMD. There is other disambiguation information.
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