Certainly this is what I was trying to get at with my reference to authority
control.
I agree.
Gary Masters
"Diane I. Hillmann" wrote:
> I think the idea is that the relationship of the organization to the
> document or object, not the relationship of the organization to the
> contributor, is what belongs in the metadata for the document. RDF
> contains a mechanism for linking the name of the organization and/or the
> contributor to additional information (address, email, affiliation, etc.),
> which makes more sense than trying to describe everything and everybody in
> the context of the metadata for the document or object.
>
> By the way, this method corresponds roughly to what librarians call
> "authority control."
>
> Diane
>
> >
> > How would a system know which person was affiliated to which
> >organisation if there were multiple company/individual contributor pairs,
> >or are these not tied together?
> >
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