I am putting in my oar as someone who attended one of the excellent OCLC
training sessions.
I think that the confusion that many participants experienced will be more
readily solved by emphasizing the optionality of DC elements (if you don't
have a publisher, you don't have to fill in the publisher slot) and by
clarifying or elaborating the use of the Contributor element for holders of
roles whose value to resource retrieval is not yet known or established
than by conflating the three elements into one.
Jacque Russom
Sr. Researcher, STG
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