Sorry. I interpreted "site" in a more general sense.
At WGBH, we have to manage both digital files and physical objects in
the same system. In designing our data model, we found that DC Publisher
alone did not suit our need to designate who/what departments in our
organization are the caretakers. We created the element Holdings that
corresponds to the DC Library Application Profile, which includes
Location for physical objects but does not exclude related file
information. I realize that every organization has its own needs, and
ours is a big, sprawling one with lots of departments and jurisdictions.
Next time I'll finish my morning coffee before I respond. ;-)
Thom Shepard
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Diane Hillmann wrote:
> 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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