Unlike IMDB, wikipedia requires a reliable source for everything, and
for dates of birth requires a reliable secondary source (i.e. a birth
certificate is not enough).
Sadly, for a lot of material covered by BIBFRAME (like most of
Bollywood), IMDB is a most reliable digital source I'm aware of.
cheers
stuart
On 07/19/2014 07:00 AM, LAURA DAWSON wrote:
> I think it depends on any individual organization¡¯s mandate. But I just
> know that IMDB has had to purge this sort of information because of
> complaints from actors/actresses and/or their agents. I agree that it¡¯s
> more a societal problem than a data problem. But until that problem is
> rectified, there¡¯s the potential for people not to get work; it¡¯s a
> question of protecting the discriminated while the discriminators
> presumably are being dealt with.
>
> (They¡¯re not, though.)
>
> From: Cindy Wolff <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Reply-To: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Date: Friday, July 18, 2014 at 2:54 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Subject: Re: [BIBFRAME] BibFrame and Linked Data: Identifiers
>
> Well it is our job not to suppress such information, which makes me
> wonder what else people will urge us to purge from our catalogs. A lot
> of work-around to avoid age discrimination when society should be
> standing up to discriminators. I feel such caving in would make us
> complicit.
>
> Cindy Wolff
>
>
>> Sometimes I forget how effective a tool the internet is for suppressing
>> indicators of sarcasm.
>>
>> Yes we have similar requests to
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP/N too.
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>>
>> On 07/18/2014 12:36 PM, LAURA DAWSON wrote:
>>> Actor/actress career prospects. At ISNI, we©öve received requests to take
>>> birth dates down because of that reason.
>>>
>>> On 7/17/14, 7:59 PM, "Stuart Yeates" <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> LCNA / VIAF dates of birth turn out to be surprisingly useful for
>>>> writing wikipedia biographies of living people.
>>>>
>>>> Almost makes you wonder whether there's a reason we shouldn't be
>>>> plastering people's dates of birth all over the public internet.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> stuart
>>>>
>>>> On 07/18/2014 10:14 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>>> Wow. Am I now glad that my LCNA entry doesn't include birth date :-).
>>>>> I
>>>>> doubt if the entry has ever had such exposure.
>>>>>
>>>>> kc
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/17/14, 1:27 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>
> From: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum
>>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pilsk, Suzanne
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 3:54 PM
>>>>>> To:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [BIBFRAME] BibFrame and Linked Data: Identifiers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So Ralph, are you saying the IRI for Karen should be
>>>>>>> Bf:identifierValueURI<http://viaf.org/viaf/195531823/#Coyle,_Karen>?
>>>>>> Well, the hash stuff at the end is gratuitous decoration, but yes,
>>>>>> that's the correct URI.http://viaf.org/viaf/195531823 (without
>>>>>> trailing slash or hash comment) is the ID for Karen as a
>>>>>> RealWorldObject and returns a 303 redirect to that URI with a
>>>>>> trailing
>>>>>> slash, pointing to our page about her.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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