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Name authority and sample RDFa markup

About a name authority

A name authority file (CCO example below) contains a record of the authorized or formal version of the name (and other pertinent information) of a person or corporate body. Information may also include events, dates, places, titles, organizations, etc. The record will contain a unique identifier and use a controlled vocabulary. This creates part of a mechanism which helps provide uniform access to resources related to the person (or corporate body) being described.

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MMC- ID 1895_1
Names: Munro, Murdoch. (preferred, inverted) Murdoch Munro (preferred, natural order) Dodo (variant)
Display Biography: bank clerk, military personnel, 1895-1961, active 1914-1919
Nationality: Scottish
Birth Date: 1895-03-20; Death Date: 1961-11-02
Earliest Active: 1914; Latest Active: 1919
Life Roles: bank clerk • military personnel
Gender: Male
Place of Birth [TGN ID= http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050386]: Ardcharnich (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Place of Death [TGN ID= http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009546]: Edinburgh (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Related Person:
Relationship Type: brother of
Related Person label [MMC ID]: Munro, Mary (1896-1964)
Note: Murdoch Munro was a soldier in the 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, serving as part of the British Expeditionary Force sent to France during the World War, 1914-1918. He enlisted on April 12th 1913 when he was eighteen years old. His rank became Lance Corporal. He was awarded the Military Medal for an act of gallantry in the field in August 1918. He was disembodied from service on March 1st 1919. Murdoch Munro became a bank clerk in civilian life and lived with his family in Edinburgh (Scotland).
Sources: pending

Sample of rdfa markup

Information about Murdoch Munro could be expressed as: ​

Murdoch Munro, 1895-1961
Corps: 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Rank: Lance corporal
Regimental number: 200147
Medals: Military Medal, 1914 Star ​

Marking up this description and better optimizing for search engines, will improve findability and discoverability. Schema.org vocabularies were also explored. A basic layout of a description for 'person' is illustrated here. This 'conversion' into rdfa has not been incorporated here.

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