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> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Weinheimer Jim
> Sent: 6 mai 2009 18:08
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>
> If you search Nat Turner's Rebellion in the authority file, you get
> zero because the only term in the record is "Insurrection."
> Somebody
> would have to physically add "Nat Turner's Rebellion" as a 450
> cross-reference. But as soon as we did that, somebody else
> would want
> "Uprising" and then "Revolt" and then the white supremacists would
> want something. This is only for one, relatively clear concept.
> What would happen with the hundreds of thousands of other concepts,
> some far more difficult and controversial, if the authority file is
> supposed to work this way? The updates would be absolutely
> overwhelming.
>
Yes, right. If a user asks the 17th variant, bad luck. But
for the first 2-3 most frequent versions ...
>
Besides, for names, for instance, there are people who add
many, many variations. Look here
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Michelangelo&rol
e=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500010654 39 variants of > Michelangelo's name.
>
>
> Jim Weinheimer
Dan Matei
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Received on Wed May 06 2009 - 15:33:32 EDT