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
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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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