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Old 12-06-2008, 05:51 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
And what about an author's alternative names (pseudonyms, real name...)? Is there any field/way to store them?

For instance, I would put "Mark Twain" as a creator with role="aut" and file-as="Twain, Mark"... but where could I put "Samuel Langhorne Clemens", his real name?
Does this kind of information really belong in a book? What happens when an author adds a new psedonym? What happens when an author change his name? And so on. Would it not be better to have a pointer from the book to the current information about the author?
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