Re: Recommendations -- authority files and discrete values

Yes, "thing" is much better. I also though of something like "entries"  
for "entries in the authority file." But "things" is good. - kc

Quoting Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>:

> Hey - I like it! :-)  Much better than "entity"...
>
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:33:14PM -0400, Marcia Zeng wrote:
>> Tim Berners-Lee used 'identify things'...[1] :-)
>>
>> Marcia
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
>>
>> On 9/5/11 10:25 PM, "Tom Baker" <tbaker@tbaker.de> wrote:
>>
>> >Yeah - won't work...  But I share Karen's dislike of "entity".
>> >
>> >Tom
>> >
>> >On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:56:05PM -0400, Jeff Young wrote:
>> >> 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"...?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>
> --
> Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
>



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