- From: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:20:27 -0400
- To: lac <lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Hugh Glaser" <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "Bernhard Haslhofer" <bernhard.haslhofer@univie.ac.at>, bernhard.schandl@univie.ac.at, "SW-forum Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "MacKenzie Smith" <kenzie@mit.edu>, "Ian Millard" <icm@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:58 PM, lac <lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:41:19 -0400, "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I wouldn't be so quick to diplomatically brush this aside. The library > > world is finally taking steps into the semantic web [1], but there's > > still a lot of work to do here, and making name authorities suitable > > for the 21st century has to be a big one. > > Diplomatically acknowledge, by all means. But the crux of Hugh's work is > that the idea of a single point of authority for names is completely > outdated and should be scrapped with extreme prejudice. But currently > digital librarians, repository implementers and funders are promoting the > idea of a unified "author name authority" for the whole of Europe. I guess I'd be with Hugh, then, in believing this is a horribly bad idea. I think the only solution that will work is one that is decentralized: that can accept that I might have one (URI) identifier for me and my work, and that others may have their own, but that we can link them together. Bruce
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