At 10:45 PM 4/29/99 +1000, Alex Satrapa wrote:
>In one paragraph or less, can anyone describe what advantage I would
>find in describing a resource with:
>
>DC.Creator = "John and Debra Doe (firm)"
>
>as opposed to
>
>DC.Creator = "Doe, John"
>DC.Creator = "Doe, Debra"
>
>In a MARC record, I can understand that you've only got one field to
>enter this data in, and you might have restrictions on the number of
>characters in a field. AFAIK, there are no such restrictions in DC. You
>can repeat DC.Creator as many times as you like. What other reasons are
>there for Corporate Authors?
And to add to Rachel's and Robin's examples, consider that even if John and
Debra are still alive and running the company, they may not be directly
responsible for the content of a given document. Their Employee Manual, for
example, may be put together by a team in Human Resources and issued under
the name of "John and Debra Doe" the company.
Also consider that John and Debra Doe may not even exist (like Betty
Crocker) or they may have existed but have little or nothing to do with the
institution in question (like Duncan Hines or Ethan Allen).
Yes, Betty Crocker is a brand and Ethan Allen is officially Ethan Allen
Interiors, but you get the idea.
Byron
Prof. Byron C. Mayes
Systems Librarian/Assistant Professor, Hunter College of the City University of
New York
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