Sorry to drag up this old one...
But a format (eg: GIF, JPEG) is only the result of a transformation. What
if, for example, someone was doing a research project and wanted to know
about the various methods of anti-aliasing?
Searching for anti-aliasing could give them heaps of information on the
theory or even algorithms. However, searching for
DC.Contributor.Technique="anti-aliasing" would reveal heaps of
end-products showing (qualitatively) the result of various methods.
Regards,
Alex
PS: Contributor doesn't always have to be an *entity*. Would Koko the
gorilla be classed as a "Contributor" in any studies performed that
included her? What about experimental subjects in general? After all, it
may turn out that all that "random sampling" only ended up picking really
lucky people (anyone read RingWorld yet?) and that it is important to know
exactly who the test subject was, in order to validate the results. I
know... it sounds a little far fetched, but then, 900 years ago you would
have been burned at the stake for claiming that the Earth was round, or
even worse, not the centre of the Universe.
Weibel,Stu wrote:
> Contributor is a person or organization.
>
> If it supports discovery in some significant way to encode information
> concerning a processing algorithm, then this should be done in the
> description field, or perhaps as part of a scheme developed to qualify
> format.
>
> stu
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