At 15:54 +0100 25/09/97, Paul Miller wrote:
>khsu wrote:
>> This is in regard to the distinction between the Creator element and >
>>the Contributor element, or why making the distinction at all.
>>
>> Since every element is repeatable, why not just repeat the Creator
>> element with appropriate qualifiers for any additional contributors
>> and combine the two elements into one Creator/Contributor element?
>
>The Arts & Humanities Data Service also encountered problems in the
>distinction between 'creator' and 'contributor' during its series of
>workshops earlier this year; mainly with regard to digital surrogates of
>physical 'object'-like resources.
>
>The solution adopted is simply to ignore contributors; the element is,
>after all, optional, and many other groups DO find it useful.
>
>A report detailing this -- and the rest of our findings -- will be
>handed out to anyone who wants them in Helsinki. For those not attending
>DC5, the report will be available for purchase from AHDS (and on the web
>for free) later in October...
In a mathematical preprint and thesis indexing project in France, we thought
of using the CONTRIBUTOR element to describe the director of a thesis.
Would this be correct?
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