Jon Knight writes:
| On Sat, 30 Nov 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:
| > Well, I am not sure either, but I had expected Author's Affiliation to
| > be OtherAgent Type=Affiliation. Actually this was the one think I
| > couldn't see clearly how to encode in DC from existing Unix refer databases.
|
| We've had "Affiliation" down as a value of the Type qualifier for Author
| for some time now. Fits in well with the Name, Email, Postal, Phone, etc
| metadata we've already got in there. I've just added Affiliation to
| OtherAgent's list of Type values as well as it might be useful in there as
| well (for editors and the like).
I think this is the wrong tack.
http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/dublin_core_report.html
doesn't list a Type qualifier for Author, and indeed the example given
would suggest that one stuffs all that address info into the content
of Author or leaves it out:
Author (scheme=USMARC) = 100 1 Doyle, Author Conan $c Sir, $d 1859-1930
(assuming a typo there after the first comma ...) where Doyle's dates
would be replaced or augmented by his email address. Email address
is not a type of author, it's information for which no specific slot
has been provided in DC (along with much else). Nor is OtherAgent
expected to be something about Author. Lee is right that there's
no way to *encode* this info in DC:Author; that's okay.
Address and affiliation information for an author might well be
pointed to (one would want a qualifier for that, but not Type),
and might well be in some popular format other than DC (this kind
of info is the object of half a dozen Internet Drafts by now).
In HTML, you could provide it in META outside the DC META elements.
Do we really need to shoehorn it into what Stu wants to finish
this month as DC 1.1? (Assuming that 1.0 is the version published at
the URL above.)
Regards,
Terry Allen Fujitsu Software Corp. [log in to unmask]
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