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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:50:15 -0500
> From: "Rebecca S. Guenther" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: AACR2 and dc and external authority data
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> There seems to be no way at this point in time
> to be able to point to an authority record for Creator and Contributor
> since those elements have no qualifiers (or structured values, which would
> be more appropriate).
when one doesn't want to use RDF -
(c.f. DC with vCard)
> The Library of Congress is investigating using LCCNs as persistent
> identifiers using an HTTP string so that a catalog record can be
> accessed.
That would be great.
Cheers,
rs
> More later on that. (This would also satisfy one of the goals
> of DCMI-Libraries WG of "Investigate how to provide URI transparency to
> library database resources.")
>
> Rebecca
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> > Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:01:48 +0000
> > From: Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: dc and external authority data
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Aida Slavic wrote:
> >
> > > Andy (and others, maybe Pete)
> > >
> > > What would be the most likely DC offical position on the issues of machine
> > > readable authority data and metadata architecture
> > > taking into account interoperablity?
> > >
> > > I wonder, if for instance, I want to refer to an entry from
> > > LNAF or some other 'exposed' and machine readable data
> > > - is it possible/desirable/suggested(?) to have in dc.creator URI/ID of
> > > authority entry instead of textual value (Surname, Name)?
> > > For instance if my VCard is external to my dc standalone metadata
> > > repository (encoded in XML or XML/RDF), properly encoded, should I:
> > >
> > > a) have authority entry URI/id, instead of textual value (Surname, Name)
> > > b) have both authority entry URI/ID and textual value
> > > c) use ID locally but replace ID with text value from VCard
> > > file when exporting/publishing metadata (i.e. engaging in information exchange)
> > > d) use ID only, but export/exchange both VCard file and metadata files???
> > > e) have only text value in dc metadata and use authority file only as cataloguing
> > > tool, source
> >
> > My personal preference is for approach b). Note this isn't an official DC
> > position, but I think it is very much in line with the kinds of things Stu
> > was suggesting at the Florence DC-Agents meeting as far as I recall :-).
> >
> > In the case of name authority files (for use with dc:creator,
> > dc:contributor and dc:publisher) I would expect these issues to be
> > discussed on the DC-Agents WG list. For more general issues of linking
> > between metadata records, I guess that the DC-Architecture list is the
> > better place - one will also want to link to 'authority' files for
> > dc:subject, dc:coverage, etc.
> >
> > For info, in one iteration of the "Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core
> > in XML" document, we made suggestions for the use of XLink to link between
> > metadata records. See section 7 of
> >
> > http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc-xml-guidelines/2002-01-31/
> >
> > if you are interested. But note that this section has been removed from
> > the current version - now up for final comment at
> >
> > http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/12/02/dc-xml-guidelines/
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > My plan is to re-propose this mechanism separately.
> >
> > One could combine this approach with the use of a 'LNAF' encoding scheme
> > (associated with the text string). So, one might have something like (in
> > XML)
> >
> > <dc:creator
> > xlink:type="simple"
> > xlink:href="http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=339930&v1=1&HC=1&SEQ=20030305095406&PID=17448"
> > xsi:type="loc:LNAF">
> > Powell, Andy
> > </dc:creator>
> >
> > (which is not me by the way!) though it'd be nice to have some shorter,
> > more persistent looking URIs for this stuff ;-).
> >
> > Andy
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