Re: Recommendations -- authority files and discrete values

• From: Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org>
• Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:56:05 -0400
• To: "Tom Baker" <tbaker@tbaker.de>, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
• Cc: <public-xg-lld@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <028f01cc6c38$1e40d061$d71dae84@oa.oclc.org>

An RDF audience will read "individual" as an instance of any type. A library audience will possibly assume "individual" refers to an individual person. God help us.

Jeff

Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:30:43PM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote:
> so maybe:
> 
> Among these are authority files, whose members identify individual
> entities (I don't like that term), and controlled lists of values.

Or simply: "whose members identify individuals"?  Or does that
imply too strongly "individual people"...?

Received on Tuesday, 6 September 2011 01:56:21 UTC