> I believe that Mike Taylor has concerns about mapping multiple index names
> to the same semantics, though apparently that is considered OK in the case
> of "author/creator" and is also OK if the index names are in different
> context sets. In GILS, we do have a few instances where multiple names are
> needed for the same abstract concept.

For the record, I agree with Mike's concerns.  It would be better if you
just picked one name for each index, as then there's no decision to be
made by people using the context set as to which name(s) to support.
Nor requiring clients to try and support all of the different names.

Rob

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