On 4 Jun 2010, at 22:20, Karen Coyle wrote: > Quoting Jim Pitman <pit...@stat.berkeley.edu>: > >> >> The edge case of corporate authors needs to be accomodated. An instructive >> example is Nicolas Bourbaki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki >> >> http://openlibrary.org/search?q=Nicolas+Bourbaki >> >> I note that >> >> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL5038897A/Bourbaki_Nicolas_pseud. >> >> hints that "Nicolas Bourbaki" is a pseudonym for an organization, while >> >> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL145730A/Nicolas_Bourbaki >> >> does not. More straighforwardly, you may have corporate authors >> like Committees, W3C, etc. >> I'd be interested to see how RDF experts would accommodate this fork. > > I don't know how it is covered in RDF, but as you know in libraries > corporate authors are not considered an edge case -- they "author" > huge numbers of governmental publications as well as corporate > publications, and rival humans in their output. OL does not store > these as authors, however, so we can be sure that all authors are > persons, or some other entity presenting itself as a person. The FOAF > Person does not imply a natural person, and can be used for any > assertion of person-ness. It does not provide a means to indicate that > the person is a pseudonym for one or more natural persons. I would > need to look at the latest work on the person data being developed in > the library world, but I know that there is a debate on how important > it is to link natural persons to the person representation.
I er towards considering 'author' purely as a relationship, not as an entity. That leaves us free to model the entity as whatever it is; foaf:Person, foaf:Organization etc. > > The edge case, in my mind, is the use of conferences as authors, which > is a practice in library data. I still have trouble wrapping my head > around that. I would see a conference a short-lived organization and treat it as such. Of course, you could also subclass foaf:Organization to create your own Conference class to keep them distinct from other things. > > kc > -- > 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 Rob Styles tel: +44 (0)870 400 5000 fax: +44 (0)870 400 5001 mobile: +44 (0)7971 475 257 msn: mmmmm...@yahoo.com irc: irc.freenode.net/mmmmmrob,isnick web: http://www.talis.com/ blog: http://www.dynamicorange.com/blog/ blog: http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/ blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/ blog: http://blogs.talis.com/n2/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. Find out more about Talis at http://www.talis.com/ shared innovation™ Any views or personal opinions expressed within this email may not be those of Talis Information Ltd or its employees. The content of this email message and any files that may be attached are confidential, and for the usage of the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, then please return this message to the sender and delete it. Any use of this e-mail by an unauthorised recipient is prohibited. Talis Information Ltd is a member of the Talis Group of companies and is registered in England No 3638278 with its registered office at Knights Court, Solihull Parkway, Birmingham Business Park, B37 7YB. _______________________________________________ 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
