Re: examples of linking bibliographic RDF to articles

From: Alf Eaton <alf_at_hubmed.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:38:27 +0200

On 15 Jul 2005, at 09:09, Alf Eaton wrote:

>
> On 15 Jul 2005, at 07:06, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
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>> Alf Eaton wrote:
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>>>>> Alf, What are you thoughts on giving URIs to people?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> Impossible (as far as bio/med publications are concerned, anyway).
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>>>
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>> Why impossible? (not dense, just curious)
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> Because you can't say for sure who a person is. The system can't
> differentiate between two people with the same (the closest that
> people have come is inferring different identities from lists of
> collaborators). What you could do, perhaps, is define one
> particular name at one particular address as a unique person, but
> it breaks when you get someone with a common name and you still
> have to link that to the same person at an earlier or later address.
>
> I'd like to be shown otherwise, but there doesn't seem to be a way
> to know exactly who a paper's author is, at the moment.
>
> alf.
>

"The system can't differentiate between two people with the same
name", that should have been.

alf.
Received on Fri Jul 15 2005 - 08:35:40 EDT