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From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_KCOYLE.NET>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:10 -0700
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> 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.
Not good enough for me :-)
Clinton with the president hat on (say, as author) is not exactly the same as Clinton himself or Clinton as governor.
So, we should have:
a (record for a) person: Clinton (himself, as a free individual :-);
a (record for a) persona: the person Clinton associated with the legal body US;
a (record for a) persona: the person Clinton associated with the legal body Arkansas;
And those personas could be blank RDF nodes (RDF anonymous resources), but I prefer them to be URI-ed resources.
> 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
Exactlly: Carrol and Dodgson are entities (related to each other) not just character strings (elements of an entity).
Dan
Received on Sun Oct 25 2009 - 13:49:30 EDT