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>John is a potter. He makes a pot. Who created the pot?
>Mary is a painter. She painted the pot. Who created the painted pot?
>Mark is Mary's son. He broke the pot. Who created the mess on the floor?
>Julie is Mary's estate caretaker. She put the pot back together. Who
>created the repaired cracked painted pot?
>Harry is a florist. He put some flowers in the pot, and placed the lot
>in a nice setting. Who created the floral display?
>Ansel is a photographer. He took a photo of the flowers sitting in the
>repaired pot stating in the nice setting. Who created the photo of the
>floral display?
>
>The "strict creator rule" answers are, in order, John, John, John, John,
>Harry, Harry.
Based on your description, I would say John, Mary, Mark, Mary, Harry and
Ansel - but if you show it to 10 different people, you'll likely get 10
different answers, and none of them will be wrong!
There is no "strict creator rule". In fact, there are a lot of grey areas
in cataloging where the best we can hope for is helping people produce an
*acceptable* result. At the end of the day, most of the implementors I've
talked to are finding that catalogers are making a lot of judgment calls.
That said ... the person cataloging the resource has to decide whether the
intellectual content of the resource was modified sufficiently to create a
new work, thus superseding the creator of the original work.
IMHO, all we can do is provide people with definitions and guidelines that
express our intent, and hope for the best. With thousands, if not hundreds
of thousands of eventual Internet/Intranet catalogers - this will never be
a precise science, no matter how much we wish it were.
As far as I'm aware, the definition of Creator stands and points to
"Intellectual content" not manifestation. Unless the knowledge conveyed by
the resource changes in a *significant* way (and the definintion of
significant may change according to context), then the Creator of the
instantiation is the same as the Creator of the original.
Pete Winn
Knowledge Management InformationTechnologies
Information Services International - Los Angeles, CA
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Voice: (973)691-3853 (MTO ext. 3853)
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