Ron Daniel wrote:
>
> I can agree that "Creator" is much more general than "Author". However,
> when I walk into my local library, my work library, or access the
> catalogs from my old school, I as a searcher am presented with a form
> that says something like:
> Author:________________
> Title:________________
> Subject:________________
> ... more detailed and variable
> stuff down here ...
>
> I think we stray from this simple model at our peril.
>
What we could do is to keep AUTHOR (however less general as it is), but
indicate that this element might be used in a more general sense for
"authors", "corporative authors", "creators", "originators", "consortia"
etc. etc. One might also indicate that these categories, might be used
bunched together, if needed.
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Frank A. Roos ([log in to unmask] http://www.cwi.nl/~faroos/)
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