On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> I agree with Andy Powell on this one. The three Agent elements are
> already for specific roles: creator, publisher, contributor. What's the
> point of confusing the issue by qualifying the roles. Now, if we had a
> single agent element the role qualifier would make sense, but not
> otherwise.
Well, for the record, we disagree :-)
I do want to be able to indicate more specific roles than creator,
contributor and publisher - but I don't think a qualifier called 'role' is
the correct way to do it! The 'correct' way is to propose a whole set of
element qualifiers called
Illustrator
Author
Artist
...
etc.
Andy
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