Stu,
I have followed the agents proposal from the beginning. My concern with
it is that it merges Publisher (the *creator* of the physical
manifestation, be it print, video, digital, etc.) with the Author(s)
(the *creators* of the intellectual aspects of the work).
I realize that there is a problem with a "Web publisher": what does it
mean? What do they do? On the other hand, my experience as a
professional cataloger with a certain amount of experience dealing with
internet resources and other materials leads me to believe that this
confusing situation will probably *not* remain this way. Elsevier,
Random, RCA, etc. will continue to exist, and will remain major powers,
both in print and on the web.
I want to keep the possibility of "Publisher" in Dublin Core, even
though it may not be completely clear how we might use it at the moment.
We should leave open the option of being able to find items authored by
"Random House" as opposed to items only published by "Random House." We
do this now in our catalogs.
There will definitely be "web publishers" in the future (as there are
now). If we don't allow for these future developments, I believe we will
regret it later.
Could we agree to this?
Creator-Contributor:
Assignment of Creator and Contributor are based on feelings(!) (or we
could dump Creator altogether as an outmoded concept)
Publisher:
Retain as it is now, except make clear that it is the entity responsible
for the current manifestation of the work represented in the catalog
record.
It should also be searched separately from Creator-Contributor, since it
represents something different from intellectual access.
Jim Weinheimer
Princeton University
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"Weibel,Stu" wrote:
>
> Jim Weinheimer proposes:
>
> "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."
>
> stu, wondering if Jim peeked at the Agent Proposal from DC-6, thinks this is
> a peachy solution.
>
> For those who have not so peeked, The Agent proposal suggests that, for a
> variety of reasons, we might be better off conflating Creator, Contributor,
> and Publisher into a single element (Contributor would be my choice for a
> name). Further distinctions could be made using an enumerated list of agent
> roles.
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