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robin writes: > As others have noted, the question rapidly becomes "whose rules?" This is > explicitly an international, interdisciplinary environment. > We librarians should not assume that "our" rules will carry the day. > > For many of us, DC will be a by-product of metadata created for other > use, in other formats. For example, of the desktop tools that currently create metadata automatically, I am not aware of a single one that inverts name. For example, all of the Lotus, Microsoft and Novell products store name in natural order. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%