Date: Mon, 11 Jul 94 10:03:08 PDT
From: sallyh@Ludwig.intel.com (Sally Hambridge)
Message-Id: <9407111703.AA20633@Ludwig.intel.com>
To: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu, hoyman@gate.net, mark_crook@oclc.org,
Subject: URC-Authors section
I think I might have a solution to the author's names that will
satisfy the librarians in the crowd and the people who want a stark
spec.
I agree that we don't want to get into a long debate about name formatting,
since I know how long it took librarians to get to AACR2 (and yes, Mark,
I dug out my copy over the weekend.) But I think I disagree with Dirk
that we don't want any specification of how to do names in the draft. If
we leave this solely to implementers, then we will lose all chance of giving
users a unified syntax of names which will be useful for sorting.
So - I suggest (and word smithing is encouraged) that we say:
o Author:
This pair will encode the name of the Author(s) of a given document or
resource. Since many cultures have different ways of writing names,
the standard name representation should be that the first element of
the value should be the first element of the name to be parsed for
sorting purposes, the second element of the name should be the
second element to be parsed, and so on.
I know the prose is awkward at this point.
We can have examples here of single personal authors, multiple authors,
corporate authors, and authors with "funny" characteristics (like Van Gogh).
Author: Hambridge, Sally
Author: International Business Machines
Author: Hambridge, Sally; Doe, Jane
Author: Stanford University. Dept of Computer Science.
I think what this does is allow latitude for the implementers, but specify
a uniform (and librarian/AACR compliant) method of representing names that
will provide a parsing mechanism for clients and servers.
Comments?
Sally
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