Michael Jost wrote:
> Markus Klink wrote:
> [...]
> > I simply would like to see DC in a role where it encourages people to do some
> > "proper" resource description. This can be done by a couple of rules of
> > thumb: use names in a standard form (eg. lastname, firstname - no one will
> > have to read the whole section of the AACR in order to do that), use dates as
> > ISO8601 etc. etc.
> >
> > Quick and dirty means "standalone", "insular": we should not encourage it.
> >
> > Markus
>
> However, I would say that your "rules of thumb: use names in a standard
> form (eg. lastname, firstname ..." are quite quick and dirty.
>
> Here some dirty questions waiting for a quick answer:
>
> "Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich" or "Cajkovskij, Pėtr Il'ic"?
> "di Biase, Fausto" or "Biase, Fausto di"?
> "van Wijngaarden, Adriaan J" or "Wijngaarden, A. van"?
> "Vu, Quoc Phong", "Vu Quoc, Phong", "Quoc Phong, Vu", "Phong, Vu Quoc" or what else?
>
> What are the "proper" variants? And what are the rules?
>
> Best regerds,
> - Michael
>
You see, that is exactly the point why quick and dirty does not work when you intend to
share data. I am not a bibliographer, but would like DC see to promote some rule
awareness. It doees not matter which of the of the examples abov you take for the
"real" one. As long as you stick to one variant. Above that would be "Tchaikovsky,
Peter Ilich", "Biase, Fausto di", "Wijngaarden, A. van", and one of your choice. AACR
might tell otherwise, but making people learn the AACR in order to fill in a DC set is
a little bit over the top.
Professionally I deal with some metadata which is uncontrolled. It is amazing how many
energy people put into inventing different name forms. From experience I know that they
usually appreciate being given some rules on how to fill out a form, metadata set etc.
I am simply worried that without a strong set of rules DC will lead nowhere. At the
beginning we still had an approach of improving search facilities in the internet,
there were intelligent agents who deal with data etc.
If there are no rules within the data, than exploitation of DC data will be merely a
subset problem of exploiting internet data. It will be only a matter of time until the
quality of the DC search engines declines, because in fact the data it holds is
unsuitable.
Markus
P.S. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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