Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
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> In a database context, the concept of "Scenario 1" is of course that you
> link to a work record via a URI. But there has to be a textual
> represenation as well, a brief and concise one - in a word, a
> "citation". In a presentation context, like an OPAC, you can of course
> not present a label saying "preferred access point".
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Why does there have to be a textual citation embedded in the "source"
record (the one containing the URI in your example)?
Of course, we want to tell the user what we are "linking to". Software,
if given an identifier, can take identifier, look up the record it
identifies, take out the author, title, or whatever other attributes
might be useful in the particular software's context, and display these
to the user formatted however is best for that context.
Why duplicate (some of) this information in the "pointing" record, when
it's all already there in the "pointed to" record?
Jonathan
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> B.Eversberg
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Received on Wed May 05 2010 - 10:01:20 EDT