At 04:01 PM 7/5/2001 -0400, Rebecca Guenther wrote:
>Interesting proposal from Andy. Many of us wish that there were not three
>elements for different kinds of names/agents or whatever you want to call
>them. Most applications would want to index all together anyway. In answer
>to what the MARC relator list does, it does have Creator and Publisher
>defined as relator terms. I'm not sure why we'd want to use an element
>refinement "creator" with DC:Contributor; any ideas on that? But I could
>see using the refinement "publisher" with contributor.
I like Andy's idea, actually, and Rebecca and I have always had a minor
disagreement about whether "creator" or "contributor" ought to be the
default for the MARC crosswalk.
>On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andy Powell wrote:
>
> > > 2) Types of agents, such as Person or Organization.
> > > We would welcome a proposal.
> >
> > We more or less have a list don't we? I'd like to see this as a second
> > DCMI AgentType vocabulary rather than as additional terms in DCMI Type.
> >
If Andy's talking about keeping the AgentType attributes with the Agent
core, and not adding it to "regular" DC, I'm with him. I don't think
attributes of agents should be mixed in with metadata for a resource
(haven't changed my mind about that!)
> > > 3) Properties of persons and organizations, including contact
> > > information. I don't believe anybody on the UB wants us to reinvent
> > > vCard as a DCMI vocabulary. If Person or Organization were
> > > recognized as DCMI types, however (signaling a broadening of our
> > > implicit scope), then this would make other properties of agents
> > > into candidates for DCMI terms.
> >
> > One or more application profiles that use terms from dc, dcq and vCard
> > namespaces is what we want here isn't it?
> >
I agree--
Diane
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