[tcs-lc] For completeness - handling of ex authors

[Sally Hinchcliffe]

I agree about the boolean or enumeration but as far as I know we 
don't need the 'In' authors.

Rich wrote:
> 
> I agree with Sally that it should be an attribute.  But should it be a
> specific attribute (e.g., boolean "ExAuthor"), or should it be an enumerated
> text attribute "AuthorQualifier", with "Ex" being only one of the
> enumerations (perhaps "in" being another).
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> Rich
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tcs-lc-bounces at ecoinformatics.org
> > [mailto:tcs-lc-bounces at ecoinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Sally Hinchcliffe
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:02 PM
> > To: tcs-lc at ecoinformatics.org
> > Subject: [tcs-lc] For completeness - handling of ex authors
> >
> >
> > While we're raising hopefully minor issues - I mentioned this to
> > Roger (and I think we discussed it last week) and I know this is in
> > his 'do' list but I thought I'd get it out on to the list anyway
> >
> > At the moment 'ex' authors are handled a bit clumsily - basically in
> > 'Reckitt ex Coleman' the annotation suggests that the 'ex' should be
> > atomised in the same way as Messrs Reckitt and Coleman so you end up
> > with three agent names: Reckitt, Coleman and 'ex'. Everyone who's
> > seen this has said 'yuck'. Talking it over with Roger we thought this
> > could be handled with either an attribute or an extra element (there
> > seems to be a design backlash against attributes these days for some
> > reason)
> >
> > This would have to be optional so if it went into a later version it
> > wouldn't break backwards compatibility but I think if it could make
> > it into the final voting version it would aid acceptance of the
> > schema
> >
> > Sally
> > *** Sally Hinchcliffe
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> > *** S.Hinchcliffe at rbgkew.org.uk
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*** Sally Hinchcliffe
*** Computer section, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
*** tel: +44 (0)20 8332 5708
*** S.Hinchcliffe at rbgkew.org.uk