Diane,
Comparing my proposal with the current guidelines:
"Creator:
Element Description: The person or organization primarily responsible
for creating the intellectual content of the resource. For example,
authors in the case of written documents, artists, photographers, or
illustrators in the case of visual resources.
Label: Contributor
Element Description: A person or organization not specified in a Creator
element who has made significant intellectual contributions to the
resource but whose contribution is secondary to any person or
organization specified in the Creator element (for example, editor,
transcriber, and illustrator)."
The use of "*the* person or organization" for creator vs. "*a* person or
organization for contributor implies that, contrary to the overall
rules, this should not be repeated. I think it should be repeatable and
made explicit in the guideline, as Peter suggested.
The purpose for my proposal was to attempt to find some common ground
with David without overhauling DC with an agents proposal (which should
not include Publisher, in my opinion). That's why I omitted the
references to "intellectual contributions" and allowed for any type of
contribution.
Jim Weinheimer
Princeton University
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"Diane I. Hillmann" wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that Jim's proposal, reasonable as it may be, is really
> necessary. As Stu notes, many will conflate the three "names" fields into
> a single one for retrieval purposes, whatever is done at the descriptive
> level. The agent proposal recommends the use of role qualifiers for those
> who want them, and "Creator" is one that many will want, and are welcome to
> use. It doesn't require a top level element to handle the concept
> effectively, and no proposal that I can think of will limit users to what
> we think is "right."
>
> Diane
>
> > Jim Weinheimer writes:
> >
> >> I repeat my proposal:
> >>
> >> "If you wish to give one person or corporate body primary status in your
> >> metadata record, place it in the CREATOR field. Otherwise, put all
> >> corporate bodies and persons in the CONTRIBUTOR field. Primary
> >> importance should be placed on adding enough people and corporate bodies
> >> to be of use to the searcher."
> >>
> >> This does not demand any changes to DC. And it does not equal the Agents
> >> proposal.
> >>
> >> Can people live with this?
> >> Jim Weinheimer
> >> Princeton University
> >> [log in to unmask]
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> >
> > This is a reasonable approach, adopted by some projects already, if
> >memory serves.
> >
> > I was reviewing what the Z39.50 community is doing, and in Ralf
> >LeVan's position paper on cross domain searching, he says the DC agent trio
> >(Creator, Contributor, Publisher) will be conflated into a Names element
> >(attribute, in Z-terminology). Sounds like convergence to me
> >
> > stu
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