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tdwg / attribution

Joint TDWG/RDA group on metadata standards for attribution of physical and digital collection stewardship

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Open dshorthouse opened 4 years ago

dshorthouse commented 4 years ago


Definition	An alias for the item. Other full name agent may have been known under such as maiden name.
Existing property	alternateName
Existing namespace	https://schema.org/
Existing property identifier	https://schema.org/alternateName
Format	string
Required	no
Constraints
Examples	"Margaret Johnson"
Notes

qgroom commented 4 years ago

Should this be a pipe delimited list? Should there be recommendations on the script used?

For example, if you normally write your name in Japanese Kanji, should you put your name in Kanji script here or in the name property? This is not an alternative name, but the same name in a different script.

qgroom commented 4 years ago

alternate means alternative in North America, but it doesn't in the rest of the English speaking world. This could lead to confusion.