> Can colleagues advice me as to the reasons for not repeating data in two
> elements. If the creator is the same as the publisher should the data
> appear in both elements and if not what are the reasons for not repeating
> the information?
How one would diffierentiate between documents that have no publisher and the
one whose publisher is the creator?
According to the functional requrement for any metadata that is going to be
used for valid description, resource discovery, or information exchange it is
absolutely essential to keep a proper structure of data and not mixing two
elements that have valid reason to exist as separate.
If they happen to have the same value that should be treated as coincidence
and not the reason to skip one of them...
From the point of view of document description creator and publisher are not
considered to be the same responsibility... one is responsible for
intellectual content and the other simply "pays" (simplification) for
document to be published.
If creator invest in publishing or decide to be web designer (contributor),
this is not the reason to take from him these two additiona roles.
I understand that there is some arguments for DC when used for web resource
discovery to be "looser" in this sense but I am afraid that this is might be
bad policy to follow and to suggest.
(since DC is flat format, we are not talking here about relational database
in which you can link semanticaly related data)
Aida Slavic
LITC
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