This brings up something that does come up occasionally, which is that
we made need a way to indicate which set of "rules" is being applied to
a name. As you say,the same name can be treated differently in different
contexts. So, although we have
Smith, John
Mao, Tse-tung
if we were to display these in their "natural" (cultural?) order they
would be
John Smith
Mao Tse-tung
I don't know whether it makes sense to develop rules, or to include a
display form, but something is needed if the names will be shared across
contexts.
kc
Thomas Place wrote:
> To: the MODS standard agency.
>
> There is a problem to represent Dutch personal names in MODS.
> A Dutchman who is called Jan de Koning has as family name 'Koning' and
> as given name 'Jan'. The infix 'de' is not part of the family name. The
> possible values of the type attribute of namePart are limited to an
> explicit enumeration of values in the schema. There is no value to
> represent infixes like 'de', 'van' and 'van de'. Is it possible to add
> 'infix' (or another string with the same semantics) to the enumeration
> of values in the schema?
>
> Note that in Flanders the name would be Jan De Koning; 'Jan' is the
> given name and 'De Koning' is the family name. So this is a problem not
> of Dutch names, but of the names of the Dutch.
>
> We discovered this problem when writing guidelines for using MODS for
> institutional repositories. Probably more questions and/or requests will
> come out of this project (e.g., adding author identifiers is a problem).
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Place
>
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