Hi,
I support Rachel's reasoning.
It is of minor importance which of the following to choose:
DC.Creator.PersonalName
DC.Creator.Person.Name
DC.Person
but I would suggest the first one, because of the semi-standard status
it has reached since Helsinki, even making its way into working
applications.
Ole
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Rachel Heery wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Weibel,Stu wrote:
>
> There seems to be mailing across both meta2 and the dc-subelements list on
> the topic of CREATOR .... hope this brings it together
>
> Stu's mail:
> >
> > CREATOR
> >
> > Creator.Name
> >
>
> I don't see how Creator.Name adds to plain Creator? The default value is
> a name anyway isn't it?
>
> I think the proposals from the sub-element working group on this are
> pretty simple and could be incorporated into 'DC-Simple':
>
> a. To distinguish corporate names from personal names
>
> Proposals are:
> (from Paul's subelement wg summary)
> DC.Creator.PersonalName
> DC.Creator.CorporateName
>
> OR
> (from Roland.Schwaenzl)
> DC.Creator.Person.Name
> DC.Creator.Corporate.Name
>
> It seems to me as the default for this element is name then one might
> argue for:
>
> DC.Creator.Person
> DC.Creator.Corporate
>
> b. To distinguish addresses
> (such as e-mail, URLs of home pages)
> If we accept distinction between personal/corporate names then this
> would be carried through and proposals follow the above structure:
>
> DC.Creator.PersonalName.Address
>
> or
>
> DC.Creator.Person.Address
>
> Rachel
>
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