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…

 

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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