I think the idea is that the relationship of the organization to the
document or object, not the relationship of the organization to the
contributor, is what belongs in the metadata for the document. RDF
contains a mechanism for linking the name of the organization and/or the
contributor to additional information (address, email, affiliation, etc.),
which makes more sense than trying to describe everything and everybody in
the context of the metadata for the document or object.
By the way, this method corresponds roughly to what librarians call
"authority control."
Diane
>
> How would a system know which person was affiliated to which
>organisation if there were multiple company/individual contributor pairs,
>or are these not tied together?
>
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