- From: Butler, Mark <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:53:32 +0100
- To: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
Eric, MacKenzie You are the sponsors on this use case, so do you have any comments on the points Nick raises? "[ 073. ] Summary: Differences in opinion about correct metadata in section 4.3 Raised By: Nick Matsakis Status: open Description: I'm also not sure whether the matter of differences of opinion on "correct" metadata belongs here. There is definitely authority work that deals with ambiguity of that sort; for example the question of "Is this work about that topic?" However, it seems to me that most authority work is concerned with the question of "Is this entity the same as that entity?" which generally has a simple answer --- though finding it can be difficult when there is not enough information about the entities to make an identification. Instead, I would put the focus squarely on providing authority service in SIMILE/DSpace's heterogenous data environment. I am not familiar with the details of OCLC's authority service, but I suspect that it only works with MARC metadata. I expect that the more flexible DSpace environment will bring with it challenges that these services aren't currently capable of handling. An example of a substantial body of metadata that isn't trivially translatable to MARC would be a good argument for for providing a new authority service that is able to work with more generic metadata. Otherwise, Schema translation services may enable existing MARC-based authority services to work with non-MARC metadata." thanks Dr Mark H. Butler Research Scientist HP Labs Bristol mark-h_butler@hp.com Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/
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