Aimee Glassel wrote:
>
> We have tried to reserve the "Author/Creator" field to the equivalent of
> main entry(s) in MARC, based on explicit statements of responsibility for
> the intellectual content of the site being cataloged (following AACR2 rules
> for determining main entry).
>
and I ask:
Has it been decided whether or not metadata should reflect authorship vs.
mere contributorship or is this generally held to be immaterial (for the
purposes of metadata)? Or is it seen as an option?
One should perhaps bear in mind that without the distinction one will
never be able to collocate all "works by one author" (i.e. that author's
true "creations"), or all editions (or versions) of a work. IOW, the
objectives of traditional catalogs. (The latter, of course, may be achieved
via the "relation" field, but there would have to be a qualifier or
indicator saying that the document is another version of the document
referred to).
Do these questions matter for metadata? If not, the Creator/Contributor
distinction may well be given up. If yes, everybody would have to observe
the distinction or the metadata universe would be forever inconsistent and
search results therefore unreliable.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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