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

[Tore Morkemo]

Bob Dodd <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Have a look at the <author>, <authorgroup> in DocBook.

http://docbook.org/tdg/html/author.html
http://docbook.org/tdg/html/authorgroup.html

> 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.

We could use these from DocBook:

  <honorific>Dr.</honorific>
  <firstname>Richard M.</firstname>
  <surname>Stallman</surname>

If we identify firstname and surname at this point we could make
the icelandic index at a later point..

Tore Morkemo