Re: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Ross Singer <ross.singer@talis.com>
> wrote:
> > Does Barbara Tillett have broader/narrower resources?  "Tillett,
> > Barbara--Criticism", "Tillet, Barbara--Biographies", etc.  This is where
> I
> > have a hard time leaping.
>
> Me too, and it's why in my previous email I said that if it were up to
> me (which it isn't) loc.gov would publish one identifier for Barbara
> Tillett, and it would be of type foaf:Person (or some other suitable
> class for a Person) and not a skos:Concept.
>
> But then how do you get to concepts like the school of thought that
believes that the works of Barbara Tillett were actually created by a
committee of librarians publishing under her name?

-Ross.