On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Clayphan, Robina wrote:
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> The proposed labels which may be encoded within DCMI Agent Detail are:
>
>
> Affiliation Location Label: affiliationLocation Definition: The
> affiliation or location of the agent at the time they made their
> contribution to the described resource. This can be the name of an
> institution in the case of a personal agent or an address or
> geographic name in the case of a publisher or corporate agent. Note:
> It is not envisaged that this would be updated, the rationale being
> that e.g. the affiliation of the author at the time of the creation of
> the resource is an attribute of some significance to the resource and
> remains the same for the resource even if the agent subsequently moves
> on.
Am I correct is assuming that the location can be given in a
variety of forms or fullness and that the choice of form or
fullness will be up to the person providing the metadata, i.e.,
affiliationLocation=State University of New York at Buffalo; or
affiliationLocation=SUNY at Buffalo; or
affiliationLocation=University at Buffalo; or
affiliationLocation=The University at Buffalo;
would all be considered equally valid?
>
> Date Time Label: dateTime Definition: The date and time at which the
> agent executed its role in the life of the resource. Note: This is
> regarded as important for event-type agents where the date the agent
> executed the given role may differ from the date the resource was
> created or issued.
>
Is there a required format for the dateTime? Today's date,
April 5, 2002 could be represented as:
4/5/02 or 4/5/2002 (U.S.)
5/4/02 or 5/4/2002 (Europe)
02/04/05 or 2002/04/05 or 2002/4/5
(not to mention representations in other calendars such as
the Jewish, Islamic, etc.)
I apologize in advance if these questions have already been
answered by other documents that I am not familiar with,
e.g., one specifying exactly how dates of any type are
to be represented.
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