Andy Powell wrote:
>
...
> However...
>
> The name of the creator is *not* a property of the resource being
> described. It is a property of an 'agent' (a person or organisation) that
> is related to the resource.
I prefer a slightly different reading: the name of the creator is an *identifier*
of the related resource. We even find that names usually follow some encoding
rules, although they are typically not as formal as other identifiers, such as URL's,
that we commonly use (except in France, perhaps :-).
Now it certainly can be argued that identifiers are just another property,
but we usually consider identifiers to be a rather special property, and
give them special treatment in most models, as well as in most of the encodings.
After DC-7 I wrote up a short discussion [1] re-analysing DCMES to find out
for which of the elements the "range" was actually another resource, possibly
in-scope for a DCMES description. For these elements we would expect the
*value* to be /precisely/ an *identifier*. These identifiers can take various
forms, of course, and "name" is certainly one.
I was also careful when drafting the BOX, POINT and PERIOD specs [2] to be
consistent to this notion by refering to the values encoded in these ways
as "identifiers" of a place or time-interval, as appropriate. (Sneaky?)
[1] http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/research/visualisation/metadata/dc-id/
this was mentioned on the dc-datamodel list
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-datamodel/2000-01/0000.html
[2] http://purl.org/dc/documents/recommendations.htm
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