person schemas

Hi team,

Andy and I just had a bit of a discussion about person schemas. Andy has
been working on VRA / Artstor, and he would like to have a Person object as
previously discussed. He suggests the best way to do this would be to create
a person schema associated with a new (person) namespace rather than adding
these elements to the Artstor namespace.

Of course, librarians do effectively have a number of person schemas
already, e.g. the Library of Congress Authority file
http://authorities.loc.gov/
and the Getty ULAN
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/

For example, try searching on Leonardo da Vinci in these two sources
http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=491415&v1=1&HC=1&
SEQ=20031013132226&PID=5014
or in labelled format
http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=491415&v2=1&HC=1&
SEQ=20031013132230&PID=5014

http://webapps.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=leonardo+da+vinci&role=art
ist&nation=italian&prev_page=1&english=N&subjectid=500010879

Dr Mark H. Butler
Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
mark-h_butler@hp.com
Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/

Received on Monday, 13 October 2003 13:25:45 UTC