Hi Emmanuelle,

I just saw this message and it relates to a similar issue we are having here.  Would you link mythological figures, religious figures or fictional characters as constituents?  I personally think they should be linked as subjects, which we normally do through attributes.  I can’t really see the value of linking them in as constituents unless you have a full constituent record for them.  I also think it’s misleading to link them as constituents.  But I’d be very curious to hear how others are handling this.

To answer your question, we haven’t found a published authority that covers all of these types.  We use LCSH when we can, but we definitely have our own local authorities. 

 

Best regards,
Amber

 

 

 

Hello

 

I would like to call on the collective wisdom of the TMSers out there.

 

I am looking for published authorities (preferably online, ideally linked data) for mythological figures & creatures, religious figures and fictional figures (characters in books/plays).

 

We are giving unique identifiers to our local subject terms (the way the Getty vocabularies do) for linked open data purposes and rather than come up with our own ids I would rather reference authorized controlled vocabularies.

 

Thanks

 

Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass

Collections Data Manager

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Yale Center for British Art

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