Quoting "J. McRee Elrod" <[email protected]>:
John Myers said:
URI(Particular Manifestation of Moby Dick) -- URI(has Statement of
Responsibility/is the Statement of Responsibility for) -- URI(Herman
Melville ; illustrated by Tony Millionaire ; foreword by Nathaniel
Philbrick.)
Do these URI's refer to data stored inhouse in a linked file, or data
on the Web?
The URIs are identifiers. Where they live is not relevant. Just as it
isn't relevant where the preferred form of the author name lives, as
long as everyone uses the same one. Think of it in terms of name
authority records -- LC provides the "authority" which is also
maintained by OCLC and others who contribute to the authority file.
But to use these files, some local library systems pull in copies of
the authority record so that they can have the alternate name forms
and any other information in the record. Internally, some systems
store the names only in the name authority file, providing a link from
the local copy of the authority record rather than repeating that data
(it makes updating easier that way). I think the answer is: whatever
works, with different solutions all having some advantages and some
disadvantages, as seems to be the same with just about every decision
we make.
kc
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