- From: Pieter Van Lierop <pvanlierop@geac.fr>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:39:42 +0100
- To: "'Madeleine Stovel'" <BL.MDS@RLG.ORG>, "'www-zig@w3.org'" <www-zig@w3.org>
Lennie, This is typically an example of why Z39.50 without profiles is so hopelessly complex in interoperability issues. The definition you cite says in fact: the server can do what it wants. So if the server says: For me a normalized name is a first name followed by 5 dots and then the last name: That is perfectly legal Z39.50. I will re-formulate my question: What would a normalized name "normally" be: <LastName> space <FirstName> <LastName> comma <FirstName> <LastName> comma space<FirstName> or should the server support all of these? For example, it is not clear to me what the Bath profile says. Pieter > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Madeleine Stovel [mailto:BL.MDS@RLG.ORG] > Envoyé : mardi 19 février 2002 22:11 > À : www-zig@w3.org > Objet : 2 simple questions (?) > > > REPLY TO 02/19/02 06:15 FROM WWW-ZIG@W3.ORG: 2 simple questions (?) > > >Dear zig-gers, > >2 simple question but I did not find the answers on the Z39.50 pages: > > > >1. normalized name > >Is there a concensus about what a normalized name should be? > (Structure > >attribute 106 "name (normalized)") > >The standard says nothing about this. > >The bath profile references the ATS-1 profile which > references AACR2 rules. > >(http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/ats.html) > > > >Maybe we should make an implementor agreement that it should be: > ><LastName>,<FirstName> > >with 0 or more spaces between <LastName> and comma, and > between comma and > ><FirstName> > > > > > >Pieter van Lierop > >Geac > Pieter, > > The bib-1 semantics imply that that's what a normalized name should > be. > > Name 101 A name search term that is > structured in a > (normalized) particular order (e.g., last_name, > first_name). The resulting > term is subject to > special matching rules on the > target system > that differ from those > applied to names > structured as phrases or > unstructured names. > > I think what's in ATS-1 is more or less the consensus, although the > consensus was also not to use ATS-1, more or less. > > -- Lennie > > To: WWW-ZIG@W3.ORG >
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