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Use of <relation> for authority control is not desirable #398

Closed rockivist closed 10 years ago

rockivist commented 10 years ago

Submitted on Friday, February 28, 2014 - 1:59pm Submitted values are:

Name: Kate Bowers Affiliation: Harvard University Library Does this represent an official comment from your affiliated group? Yes Comment:

and authority control Use of `` for authority control is not desirable. It might be possible in cases where `@relationtype` is "cpfrelation", but it is not a desirable encoding mechanism for this purpose. Authority control in such cases would be merely implicit and incidental, while @identifier on and other elements it is explicit. There is also the subtle (and I think more significant) issue of conflating two relationships into one. Relationship being expressed in `` should be between the unit of description and the the object of the ``, whereas an authority relationship is a separate relationship between content of `` and an authority record. In the example below, the target of the `@href` happens to be able to function as an authority record, thus authority control would be possible. However, it cannot be guaranteed that authority functionality would be possible given that `@href` values on `` are not restricted to authority records. ` Bowers, Kate, 1963- ` The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www2.archivists.org/node/17190/submission/15482
rockivist commented 10 years ago

Kate's comments are insightful, but have no immediate impact on the schema. Closing.