Eli,
It certainly seems to me that in the case you describe, there is some
justification for using the Publisher element, particularly for
non-traditional resources where there is some fuzziness to that role. I
would not go so far to say that this represented "provenance," however,
since this seems to me to imply some extra responsibility that the
definition of the element Publisher does not support.
I'm not sure I agree with the previous respondent's suggestion that you use
the Location option from the DC Libraries Application Profile *unless*
you're referring to materials available only at at particular physical
location.
Diane Hillmann
Editor, "Using Dublin Core"
P.S. Note that the new AskDCMI service was set up to answer questions like
this one--check it out at http://askdcmi.askvrd.org/
At 01:55 AM 4/10/2003 -0400, E. Naeher wrote:
>According to the DC Element Set, DC.Publisher is defined as an entity
>responsible for making the resource available. Would it be valid to
>interpret this to refer to provenance, i.e., if I have a site to which
>various entities have contributed resources, and these entities are not
>necessarily the creators of the resources, can I use DC.Publisher to refer
>to these entities? If not, is there an accepted way in Dublin Core to
>describe provenance?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Eli Naeher
> Lower Cape Fear Historical Society
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