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You can create the [American and French] nationality, I suppose.
Arguments can be made both for and against this, but without serious
table-mangling, it would be hard to make a 1:n relationship where 1:1
exists (as is the case, I believe, in constituent : nationality). It
is semantically different enough in my opinion to justify the creation
of an additional entry into nationalities.
It makes searching a little more difficult, but I suppose the crux of
the argument really is whether or not a search for 'American' should
turn up 'American and French'.
Hope that helps.
Ryan Donahue
Manager of Information Systems
George Eastman House
International Museum of Photography and Film
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On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Milby, Jessica wrote:
> Hi folks…apologies if we’ve covered this recently…
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> Has anyone determined a standard for recording the nationality for
> artists who are citizens of two countries and need to be noted as
> such? We usually say for instance “American (born France)” but I
> have an inquiry from a curator wanting the artist’s display name to
> include a dual nationality without the pesky past tense.
>
> Thanks,
> Jessica
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> Jessica Milby
> TMS Systems Manager
> Philadelphia Museum of Art
> Phone: 215-684-7283
> Fax: 215-235-0035
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