On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Dan Brickley wrote:
> It can make a vast difference to a browsable display of DC records though.
> DC is oriented towards resource 'discovery'; this isn't always the same
> thing as searching. If we treat searching as the only application of DC,
> we risk creating records that are hard to display as, for eg,
> alphabetically ordered lists. I've no argument with your main point
> though - names are a mess. Just that we shouldn't forget the implications
> for browsing when we decide how to work around this mess.
Surely the only real way round this for both searching and browsing is
thus to specifically tag the given name, family name, vans, vons, Jrs,
IIIs, etc so that you know which bit you're searching on.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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