Karen Coyle said:
>Linking is not the same as using identifiers rather than text strings
>for entities, although both are considered "best practices" and
>linking depends greatly on clear identification.
So these identifiers link to *inhouse* files? "Shakespeare" once
rather than repeated as author, added entry, and subject, in multiple
bibliographic records?
UTLAS was doing this in 1979, with the authority RSN (001) in the
1XX/6XX/7XX of bibliographic records, rather than the text. When
doing original cataloguing, one could enter the RSN as opposed to the
text, or just "shakespeare william 1564". and you would get the RSN in
the field of the bibliographic record when the record was verified.
If later a heading changed, the new form would of course be called up
by the RSN and displayed.
But from your writing, it seemed to me that the identifiers link to a
single international file. Sorry not to have understood you properly.
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