Another take on "contributor" can be found in Rebecca's paper on
qualifiers, available at:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/dcqualif.html
She says not to specify the role of the contribution for the pragmatic
reason that it is never used. According to her:
At the Library of Congress, we have found that names are all
searched in the same index and there is no need to further
specify role in the work. We ceased to indicate this in
bibliographic records a long time ago.
Although this makes the secret structuralist inside me howl with dismay,
its a decision based on practical experience. Since our goal is to
keep the core simple, we would seem to have very little need to exceed
cataloging practice at LC. So, I guess we just say
<contributor>John Smith</contributor>
Regards,
Ron Daniel Jr. voice:+1 505 665 0597
Advanced Computing Lab fax:+1 505 665 4939
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Los Alamos National Lab http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel
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