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>Claiming that Ansel Adams is the creator of the digital image is like
>saying that the author is the person responsible for the typographical
>errors in the manuscript. Or worse - that the architect of the Sydney
>Olympic stadium is the person who built it (he must be a hard worker).
>...
>DC.Creator, from my POV, is useful for recording the person responsible
>for a manifestation (reprint) or derivative (translation) of a work.
If I were looking for the English version of "Le Petite Prince", I would
not look under the name of the person who translated it; I would look for
it under Saint Antoine du Exupery, the French author.
I get stuck on the "intellectual content" part of the definition of
DC.Creator. I would argue that the _intellectual content_ of the digitized
image is essentially the same as the intellectual content of the original,
and therefore Ansel Adams is the creator.
If DC.Creator is to record the person responsible for the manifestation, we
need to change the definition. The translator, the digitizer, the typist,
the guy who works for "fly by night", IMHO they are all contributors unless
they modify the fundamental intellectual content of the resource.
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