- From: Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 18:10:49 -0500
- To: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Cc: "Tillett, Barbara" <btil@loc.gov>, public-lld <public-lld@w3.org>
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:13:40AM -0800, Karen Coyle wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:48:09PM -0500, Barbara Tillett wrote: > SO the idea > >>of the linked clusters of authority records evolved for VIAF, > >>where all names used for a person, corporate body/conference, > >>uniform title - that is all the text strings, plus the set > >>of other attributes associated with each of those entities, > >>would together represent that entity (be the surrogate) and > >>we could display the context appropriate form to an end user > >>based on their preference/profile/ etc. > > >I do not see the use of identifying elements, such as text > >strings, which together represent an entity, discussed in the > >Use Case for VIAF [1]. This reinforces my sense that there > >is a gap in our use-case coverage on this issue. > > Barbara and Tom, are you saying that the text strings taken as an > aggregation are the *identifier* for the entity? Not as the identifier - that would be the URI. I was speculating on potential use cases for linked data in disambiguation. Tom -- Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
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