Rather than reproducing the labels of a entity (e.g. place of publication) in several places for our own technical convenience, we can supply them on the entity (the authority data) and either by indexing ahead of time or by on-demand retrieval, we can use them for display at the appropriate time (during the patron's session).

Patrons can certainly have access to authority "records". In fact, one could say that this is essential to doing good Linked Data.

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A. Soroka
The University of Virginia Library

On Aug 14, 2014, at 8:56 PM, "J. McRee Elrod" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> If we have a pointer fully-populated authority control record for publisher, adding location of publication is redundant at best and 
>> misleading at worst.
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> Patrons rarely have access to authority records.  The brief display should contain the place and jurisdictiion of publication,
> jurisdiction supplied if not in the resource.
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> That is basic information, and often a clue to the viewpoint of a resource.
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> We are working for patrons, not each other!
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