Weibel, Stu wrote:
> But we need guidelines, imperfect as they might be. Might we have a
> volunteer from the crowd to write a concise note on expressing names
> that might become the foundation for best recommended practice?
Here's some text from the Help of our MATH Database.
The database (1.600.000 records) will be converted to Dublin Core
during the EULER project in 1998 (see http://www.emis.de/projects/EULER/).
We plan to keep the conventions for author names in that new
DC database.
Demo access to not-yet-DC MATH: http://www.emis.de/cgi-bin/MATH
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Author(s), Editors, Author References
Author names have been implemented in a form common to all
STN databases, i.e. last name, first name, middle name. First
and middle names can or cannot be abbreviated. When
searching for an author's name, it is recommended to use only
the first initial. You will get all forms of the first names, because
the system adds automatically a truncation symbol. Thus, the
following forms of implementation are possible: Examples:
Friedrich Wilhelm Mahle as Mahle, F.
Mahle, F. W.
Mahle, Friedrich
Mahle, Friedrich W.
Mahle, Friedrich Wilhelm
and as an Editor (e.g.) Mahle, Friedrich W. (ed.)
The recommended search form is:
Mahle, F
The system will automatically search for
Mahle, F*
Names containing a preposition (von, van), article (le),
combination of article and preposition (du, vander),
relationships or attributes (Fitz, Mac, Jun., III) have the format
common to their country of origin. It is therefore recommended
to search for names with the supplements placed in front of
the name and after the name.
Document Database Record
Peter von der Muehl as Muehl, Peter von der
Fritz von Heyden (DE) as Heyden, Fritz von
Fritz Von Heyden (US) as Von Heyden, Fritz
A. De L'Aigle as L'Aigle, A de
C. M. Di Bari as Di Bari, C.M.
Michel Del Pedro as Del Pedro, Michel
L. C. MacLean as MacLean, L.C.
John Fitz Gerald as Fitz Gerald, John
A. Miller jun. as Miller, A.jun.
The publisher is also given in the author field, and is listed with the
supplement (ed.).
Edited by H. Waadeland as Waadeland, H.(ed.)
Editor Anita K. Jones as Jones, Anita K.(ed.)
Names in cyrillic letters have been transcribed according to the
ISO standard. In some cases this transliteration will differ from
that one on the translated document or in the western journal.
In that case we include the different form of spelling as an
author reference displayed in braces in the author field.
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Hope that some of the text may be useful for a best recommended
practice note.
- Michael
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Abteilung Mathematik u. Informatik
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