Re: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Not for Barbara, but there is precedent:
http://id.loc.gov/search/?q=%22Shakespeare%2C+William%2C+1564-1616--Authorship%22&cs=All&Search_submit=Go

-Ross.