Yes, it would be useful in the author records. I'm not sure what to call them, however... foaf doesn't have a field for that. I'll poke around.
kc Quoting George Oates <g...@archive.org>: > Wondering if we might want to consider exposing our Alternate Names fields. > > We've begun working on a tool to merge dupe authors, and as we do, > we pop their > alternates into the "master" author record. > > E.g. http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL77200A/John_Locke > > Would that be useful? > > g > > Karen Coyle wrote: >> Quoting Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com>: >> >> While you definitely could use rdf:value, >>> since you are modeling people why not introduce a bit of foaf? >>> >>> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL22022A";> >>> <foaf:name>Barbara Cartland</rdf:value> >>> </rdf:Description> >> >> Thanks, Ed. This is really a perfect situation for foaf. I'll spec it >> that way. (Anand is probably going to be doing the programming.) >> >> kc >> > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > Ol-tech@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list Ol-tech@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org
