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> It should be possible to xlink the MODS author/creator/contributor to
> its MADS authority file. Strictly speaking, you cannot do this now
> because while role indicates a relationship between an entity and the
> work in question (and so is contextual), mods:name wrongly assumes
that
> role is internal to that entity. This is going to be a mess as a
> consequence.
Cannot do this? I've been doing it since before MADS (with MODS
pseudo-authority records). What's the problem with:
<mods>
...
<name xlink:href="auth.xml#smith.john">
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="code">aut</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
...
</mods>
In an authority record, by my understanding, <role> should only appear
in name/title combinations, where there *is* a context for the role. An
authority record representing a person would not have <role>.
For the case of multiple forms of the same name on the same work, that
sounds like a job for <displayForm>:
<mods>
...
<name xlink:href="auth.xml#ichiro.suzuki">
<displayForm>Ichiro Suzuki/ $BNkLZ (B< $B0lO) (B</displayForm>
</name>
...
</mods>
The parsed forms of the name, in both scripts, would be in the MADS
record, one in <authority> and one in a <variant>.
--Andy
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