- From: Davis, Peter <Peter.Davis@neustar.biz>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:55:57 +0000
- To: "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
- CC: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@unibw.de>, Guha <guha@google.com>, "Peter Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com>, W3C Vocabularies <public-vocabs@w3.org>
On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:37 AM, LeVan,Ralph <levan@oclc.org> wrote: >> From: Martin Hepp [mailto:martin.hepp@unibw.de] >> >> For instance, the more precisely you define the semantics of a conceptual element, >> the less likely will it become that the provider and consumer of data associate the >> exact same set of entities with that type. > > I can certainly attest to that in the Library community! I keep waiting for someone to notice that we think the Pope is a corporation! When you start looking at the full semantics of our bibliographic records, you'll discover that we have 8 different definition for a book's title (Uniform title, Cover title, Spine title, Running title, Parallel title, Distinctive title, Added title, Caption title) and a single book can have many of those titles, but we have to dumb it all down to just "title" in everyone else's schema. The same problem exists in the (theatrical/episodic) video metadata community. In one schema alone, we have 0..n occurrences of localized forms of: + TitleDisplay19 + TitleDisplay60 + TitleDisplayUnlimited (variants to handle differing rendering environments) + TitleSort (suitable for programatic alpha-numeric organization) + OriginalTitle + TitleAlternate Peter Davis: Neustar, Inc. Distinguished Engineer, Neustar Labs 45980 Center Oak Plaza Sterling, VA 20166 [T] +1 571 434 5516 [E] peter.davis@neustar.biz [W] http://www.neustar.biz/ [X] xri://@neustar*pdavis [X] xri://=peterd The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you have received this e-mail message in error and any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and delete the original message.
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