Re: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF from Ed Summers on 2011-04-13 (public-lld@w3.org from April 2011)

From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:25:47 -0400
To: public-lld@w3.org
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=Cqm=FkY3NdS2S=L5XGLJjzeaBwA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ross Singer <ross.singer@talis.com> wrote:
> 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?

I didn't know such a school of thought existed. But if I did, I doubt
I would be swayed much in my opinion that an institution just dipping
its toe into Linked Data space is probably best served by introducing
a single URI for a individual person, and to see how it gets used in
actual RDF descriptions, before introducing additional complexity.

//Ed

Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:26:15 UTC