Is this discussion too print focused? One point I would make is that DC is
directed at any resource capable of being represented as an (electronic)
surrogate record or to be in electronic form itself. Include multi-media,
almost all current broadcast technologies and so on.
The number of potential "roles" is not only bigger than that "author" ;-)
but probably growing and changing. These "roles" may be very important to
the community that produces material and to those who seek to locate their
material. It would seem too that proliferation is an inevitable consequence
of the idea of "role" as the each individual production community will have
their own way of identifying and describing presenter, producer,
photographer, typographer, designer and so on.
The current solution
DC. Creator (or) Agent.Producer
has the benefits of being able to screen out this descriptive information
i.e.
DC.Creator(or)Agent*
and being simple to implement.
Matt Holland
Bournemouth University
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