John Myers' posts mocking up possible ways to display information to
disambiguate two identical names made me wonder if perhaps it would be
useful to add a new element to authority records to record relationship
designators from RDA Appendix I representing the roles of a person.
For example:
100 1# $a Smith, John
3XX $a author, $a librettist, $a editor
100 1# $a Smith, John
3XX $a programmer
100 1# #a Smith, John
3XX $a film director, $a screenwriter
100 1# $a Smith, John
3XX $a transcriber
100 1# $a Smith, John
3XX $a translator, $a illustrator
Now I do realize that that perhaps Profession or Occupation represented by
some of these roles might be able to be used as a qualifier added to the
authorized access point of some of these names, but I'm wondering if
having roles (especially multiple roles where a single qualifier could
misrepresent a person) recorded in a separate element might be useful.
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