Dan Matei wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_KCOYLE.NET>
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:45:27 -0700
>
> However, what would you do with:
>
> Ilf and Petrov
> Clinton as president of US
> Clinton as governor of Arkansas
> Lewis Carroll
> Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
> Nicolas Bourbaki
> s.o.
>
>
Dan, I think these become relationships. There's no reason why the same
person can't be president of the US and governor of Arkansas -- those
are acts by that person, they don't change the "person-ness". But you
want both uses of Clinton to have the same identifier, because they were
both the same man, just in a different role.
Lewis Carroll is a persona, and is the pseudonym of CLDogson. That's not
a hard relationship to make, I don't believe. The question is how you
divide person/persona, and I think that becomes a convention of the
community (as we changed that convention between AACR and AACR2). As
long as the relationships are explicit, then I think you can make sense
out of it. In essence you have:
Dodgson
Carroll
Dodgson -- has pseudonym -- Carroll
Carroll -- is pseudonym of -- Dodgson
Then if you want, your rules can be: always use the name the pseudonym
points to in display (AACR) or display pseudonym when present and/or
retrieve both names when searching.
Basically, by coding the relationships, you can make different decisions
using the same data.
kc
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