Re: Library data is expressed primarily as text strings

OK, I've tried it in
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_issues_page_take2&diff=6212&oldid=6141
(be careful, this diff includes quite some other changes, including a couple by Tom...)

Antoine


> Agreed. Originally these were two sections - one on bib data and one on authority data. They were once more different than they are now. So I agree that they should be merged at this point.
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> Quoting Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>:
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>> Bouncing on that thread, I'd like to mention that the section immediately following this one, "Library controlled vocabularies are expressed as text strings", is slightly redundant, see:
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_issues_page_take2&oldid=6141#Library_data_is_expressed_primarily_as_text_strings
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>> I'm also not fond of the heading "Library controlled vocabularies are expressed as text strings": the vocabularies as a whole are expressed as structured data, even though this data relies on strings, mostly...
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>> Is there any objection to my trying to merge the two in the coming hours?
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>> Antoine
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>>> I found the point "Library data is expressed primarily as text strings" to be
>>> vague as written, so I have sharpened the point [1] to emphasize the difference
>>> between "unique alphanumeric strings" such as ISBNs and "display-oriented text"
>>> such as "words and names". Please read the following paragraph and raise a
>>> flag if I have somehow "overinterpreted"...:
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>>> Most information in library data is encoded as display-oriented text
>>> strings. Some of the resource identifiers used in library data are based on
>>> unique alphanumeric strings, such as ISBNs for books, but most
>>> identification is done using words and names. Some data fields in MARC
>>> records are coded uniquely, but there is no clear incentive to include
>>> these in all records as few of them are used for library-system functions.
>>> Some data fields, such as authority-controlled names and subjects, have
>>> associated records in separate files, and these records have identifiers
>>> that could be used to represent those entities in library metadata;
>>> however, the data formats in current use do not always support inclusion of
>>> these identifiers in records, so many of today's library systems do not
>>> properly support their use.
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>>> Note "authority-controlled" with hyphen.
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>>> Tom
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>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_issues_page_take2&diff=6098&oldid=6090
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