Jim Weinheimer proposes:
"If you wish to give one person or corporate body primary status in your
metadata record, place it in the CREATOR field. Otherwise, put all
corporate bodies and persons in the CONTRIBUTOR field. Primary
importance should be placed on adding enough people and corporate bodies
to be of use to the searcher."
stu, wondering if Jim peeked at the Agent Proposal from DC-6, thinks this is
a peachy solution.
For those who have not so peeked, The Agent proposal suggests that, for a
variety of reasons, we might be better off conflating Creator, Contributor,
and Publisher into a single element (Contributor would be my choice for a
name). Further distinctions could be made using an enumerated list of agent
roles.
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