Ricky Erway wrote:
| For instance, for Michelangelo's David:
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| if Resource Type contains "photograph"
Now this is not "Michelangelo's David," it's "Photograph of a Sculpture"
| then creator is the photographer
| date is the day the picture was taken
or copyrighted
| format is 35mm slide or whatever
| publisher might likely be empty or might contain the name of the
| publisher of the book, calendar, poster in which the photo appears or
| perhaps the gallery in which it is hung
In those cases, the format isn't 35mm slide.
| if Resource Type contains "sculpture"
| creator is Michelangelo
| date is 15xx or whatever
| format is stone-carving or whatever (anyone for "realia"?!?)
wouldn't distinguish the real David from a mime. ... Otherwise, *this* is
M's D.
| publisher is empty or the Galleria dell'Accademia
okay.
| if Resource Type is "web page"
it is the "Michelangelo's David Web Page"
| creator is David Phillips
| date is 1996-04-15
| format is html
| publisher is David Phillips or Onramp Access, Inc (Phillip's
| web space provider)
David Phillips.
| if Resource Type contains "digital image"
| then creator is the person who scanned it
| date is the day it was scanned
or copyrighted
| format is JPEG or whatever
| publisher is likely empty or may be the sponsor of the website or
| CD-ROM publisher, etc.
|
| Whaddaya think?
The TEI deals with this issue, and in the instructions for the
TEI WSD (Writing System Declaration) users are urged to distinguish
representations of things from those things in titles.
The point here is not that Date depends on Resource Type, but rather
that the entire information set is about the same thing. It's useful to
have Titles that make proper distinctions, but not necessary.
The date of the web page, digital image, sculpture, is
dependent on what the thing is; it shouldn't be dependent
on what the thing is about or a representation of. Your
examples show the importance of deciding what one's thing is.
That said, created vs copyright is an itch waiting to be scratched.
Why not say "created" and rule copyright out of bounds for DC?
Regards,
Terry Allen Electronic Publishing Consultant tallen[at]sonic.net
http://www.sonic.net/~tallen/
Davenport and DocBook: http://www.ora.com/davenport/index.html
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