If I create DC metadata for a book, the creator element, according to our
definition, references the book.
David
At 08:55 PM 1/21/99 -0500, Carl Lagoze wrote:
>
> 2) The next of these relations was
>IsMetadataAuthorOf/HasMetadataAuthor.
> We recognize that while some metadata records will be
>created by the
> authors of the information resource they describe, most will
>be created by
> others such as librarians, publishers, database creators
>etc. and that the
> authenticity of the metadata is crucial to assessing it
>(see:
> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june98/06bearman.html for extensive
>discussion of
> the rationale).
>
> You asked:
> >IsMetadataAuthorOf/HasMetadataAuthor, IsOwnerOf/HasOwner --
>Aren't
> >these agent roles rather than relationship types? If
>information
> >resources and agents are indistinguishable and what is
>proposed here
> >are appropriately new relation types, then we need a heck
>of lot
> >of other relations (e.g., IsAuthorOf, IsEditorOf,
>IsTranslatorOf,
> >Donated, WasKeyGripFor, SangInTheShower, etc.) What did
>you authors
> >intend by adding just these two (or four) relation types?
>
> The value of the "creator" element (whether or not DC
>accepts my proposal
> regarding Agents) is the creator of the information
>resource, not the
> creator of the metadata. Assuming we have a creator-type (or
>better yet, an
> Agent-type) that points to a role vocabulary, we would be
>selecting roles
> to describe the relation between the named agent/creator and
>the resource,
> not between the named agent/creator and the metadata.
>
> Whoa David! Either I'm missing the point here or am I
>seeing you going down the meta-metadata black hole. I thought we had all
>come to the point that we understood that data and metadata were
>indistinguishable except in context. I'm not understanding why the
>"metadata" is not just another resource with a "creator" (and lots of other
>stuff) like any other resource. Why do you need some special "metadata"
>author relationship with creator seems to be enough? Please help me.
>
> Carl
>
>
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