Name canonicalization

Hi all,

I've been working on name canonicalization in the OCW repository, and 
wrote a script today that handles all of the names that are found there 
(either by pattern, or by using a short list of exceptions), and am 
starting to implement a web service interface to ask the OCLC for a URI 
for each name. 

Given the work I've already done on the OCLC web service, the results of 
the request are going to be a set of possible matches including
phrase matches and word matches.  I'm thinking of turning these into a 
graph that looks like this for some IMS record <R>, some person <V>, and 
a set of OCLC results <A1>, <B1>...<B2>.

<A> dc:title "Something"
    loc-life:author [
          <V> vc:FN "Smith, John";
              oclc:probablyMatches <A1>;
              oclc:possiblyMatches <B1>;
              oclc:possiblyMatches <B2>
     ] .
                     
 
Does this seem like a reasonable model for this relationship?   How do 
we match this up with the ArtStor records -- I imagine they should be 
matched by URI, with a similar linkage from each ArtStor record.

Cheers,
-kls          

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