On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:04, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> 1) Get rid of elememts like ref and refs and replace them with what they
> really refer
> to, with options of: organization, person, event, place, and work.

Doesn't this depend a bit on what you intend to do with the references?
(In any case, it's probably a matter of convenience rather than
functionality.) I know how we use them in library systems, but I'd like
to hear what uses are anticipated in other systems.

> The above
> structure makes both human reading and XML processing easier.

I have to debate the assumption that humans will be reading XML
documents in their marked-up form. Programmers, mainly, but not humans.
;-)

> Not sure the details are right below, but basic idea is to be able to
> represent changing
> positions, and even affiliations. Think of a lawyer who becomes a Supreme
> Court Judge,
> and so forth.
> -->
> <organization>
> <orgName>Federal Bureau of Investigation</orgName>
> <position>
> <title>Director</title>
> <temporal encoding="w3cdtf" qualifier="approximate" point="start">1924</temporal>
> <temporal encoding="w3cdtf" qualifier="approximate" point="end">1972</temporal>
> </position>
> <position>
> <title>Assistant Director</title>
> <temporal encoding="w3cdtf" qualifier="approximate" point="start">1919</temporal>
> <temporal encoding="w3cdtf" qualifier="approximate" point="end">1924</temporal>
> </position>
> </organization>
> </affiliation>
> </person>
> </mads>

I think that this stretches the MADS record beyond how it is used for
authority control in libraries. Not that that's a bad thing, but if we
do want to do that then we need some clear idea of what needs we are
addressing and what functionality fulfills those needs. (At one point I
ended up thinking about an authority record for an author that had all
of her publications included... to the point that it became a full
bibliographic record for that person, plus all of the references and
institution info -- ended up being a full entry for "Who's Who". A neat
idea, but not a library authority record, that's for sure.)

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