RE: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: Classification difficulty and incompletene ss

[Duncan Lock]

Hi,
        Firstly I feel like we are reinventing the wheel here. This is not
the first digital encylopaedia and not even the first free 'open content'
style one (see www.nupedia.com). Someone has done this before and much
better than I could, I'm sure. I will see if I can talk to the nupedia
people about seeing/using their DTDs.
        To answer your question in the meantime how about a
<contribution></contribution> tag for each author containing values such as
'primary author', 'contributing author', 'researcher', 'pizza delivery boy',
etc...?

Thoughts?

Dunc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Behalf Of Bob Dodd
> Sent: 18 January 2001 12:48
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: Classification difficulty and
> incompletene ss
> 
> 
> I'm sorry Duncan, this is going to go on forever but...
> 
> We also need to identify main author(s). Sometimes entries may come
> from project teams, where everyone plus the teaboy gets listed as
> authors, but we still need to know the main authors for indexing
> purposes.
> 
> We also need to handle the "F. Bloggs et al" style of naming.
> 
> I also wonder about "foreign" names (i.e. not 'european') where it's
> not the surname that is important. Actually, you get that in Iceland
> too: the phonebook there is listed/indexed by first name... I'm sorry,
> I don't know what happens with academic publications.
> 
> /Bob Dodd