Quoting Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_GMAIL.COM>:
> Wouldn't it make more sense to "link" to the authority (via the $0) or
> some surrogate for identity and provide the capacity to link to
> resources there?
>
> Why would you want to do this for every single record?
Because in most catalogs the name heading is a bibliographic field,
not a link to the authority record. And in many catalogs, there is no
direct link between them. You could get the user to the authority
record eventually, but it would take a couple of clicks -- a couple of
clicks that users probably wouldn't have the patience for.
BTW, the VuFind example is quite nice. For all that some folks
consider wikipedia to be complete anarchy, their opening descriptive
paragraphs seem to work well in a lot of different contexts.
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Received on Wed Apr 28 2010 - 10:01:17 EDT