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Co-relation between name_organization, name_taxonomic, summary with other name fields. #11

Closed mit2nil closed 7 years ago

mit2nil commented 7 years ago

Hi,

I am not sure how to model name_organization, name_taxonomic and summary fields in aac-actors.json. I ran simple test script comparing values of name_full field and name_organization attribute and most of the values in name_organizaion are either same as name_full field or blank.

workergnome commented 7 years ago

I think we need more information about what those fields are—they sound like they are there because of a difference in the internal model between organizations and people, but I don't know for sure.

@IllyaMoskvin, do you have any insight?

IllyaMoskvin commented 7 years ago

name_taxonomic refers to the name as it was found in ULAN or more likely, our lexicon, which is derived from the Getty Vocabularies. name_organization is set only for organizations (i.e. E40 Legal Body). David is correct: if the actor is not an organization, name_organization will be null. name_full is a convenience field derived from name_last and name_first.

I'm glad to hear that you ran a script to compare name_full and name_organization. I believe that if the two are the same, name_organization is the canonical one. Also, if name_full is null, name_organization should be set, indicating an organization.

I unfortunately do not have a way to manually fix the data currently for any organizations that (erroneously) do not have name_organization set, but do have name_full set. I don't know if any such actors exist.

SamiNorling commented 7 years ago

Wanted to chime in on this one now that I am completing my review of our mappings and data in Browse, and since this issue is still open.

The current mapping, which uses the value of name_full as rdf:value of E38_Actor_Appellation2 works well with our data--name_full is pretty consistently used and is the best version of a creator name of the available name-related fields for each creator.

SamiNorling commented 7 years ago

Current mapping which utilizes name_full for rdf:value of each actor name, regardless if individual or organization, is good. With our data refresh, I am cleaning up the data so that this field is consistently used. This will also resolve the issue @workergnome mentioned at AAC meeting of many actors having NULL names (problem became apparent when looking at our 100 sample actors in Browse).

I suggest this issue be closed.