- From: Ross Singer <ross.singer@talis.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:01:54 -0400
- To: Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>, public-lld@w3.org
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that unnecessary complexity should be avoided. What does
> "Tillet, Barbara--Biographies" provide that couldn't be done with
> subject: Barbara Tillet, genre: Biography ? Even in the card catalog
> world, I'd argue that "Tillet, Barbara--Biographies" isn't actually a
> narrower concept than the subject "Tillet, Barbara" but rather a
> combination of two orthogonal facets. They're grouped together to
> make for convenient collation and browsing, not because it makes any
> kind of ontological sense.
Fair enough, using genre/form was a bad example.
However, there are plenty of names that have topical subdivisions:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship--Marlowe theory
For a completely non-comprehensive list in LCSH, take a look at the
personal names with a general subdivision:
http://api.talis.com/stores/lcsh-info/services/sparql?query=PREFIX+skos%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2004%2F02%2Fskos%2Fcore%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+lcsh%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2FLCSubjects.org%2Fvocab%2F1%23%3E%0D%0ADESCRIBE+%3Fs%0D%0AWHERE+{%0D%0A%3Fs+skos%3AinScheme+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flcsubjects.org%2Fschemes%2FpersonalNames%3E+%3B%0D%0Alcsh%3AgeneralSubdivision+%3Fo+.%0D%0A}%0D%0ALIMIT+40
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX lcsh: <http://LCSubjects.org/vocab/1#>
DESCRIBE ?s
WHERE {
?s skos:inScheme <http://lcsubjects.org/schemes/personalNames> ;
lcsh:generalSubdivision ?o .
}
LIMIT 40
Anyway, there are lots of these and I think they get a bit more
complicated than genre/form.
-Ross.
Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:02:23 UTC