I'm not sure that Jim's proposal, reasonable as it may be, is really
necessary. As Stu notes, many will conflate the three "names" fields into
a single one for retrieval purposes, whatever is done at the descriptive
level. The agent proposal recommends the use of role qualifiers for those
who want them, and "Creator" is one that many will want, and are welcome to
use. It doesn't require a top level element to handle the concept
effectively, and no proposal that I can think of will limit users to what
we think is "right."
Diane
> Jim Weinheimer writes:
>
>> I repeat my proposal:
>>
>> "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."
>>
>> This does not demand any changes to DC. And it does not equal the Agents
>> proposal.
>>
>> Can people live with this?
>> Jim Weinheimer
>> Princeton University
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> This is a reasonable approach, adopted by some projects already, if
>memory serves.
>
> I was reviewing what the Z39.50 community is doing, and in Ralf
>LeVan's position paper on cross domain searching, he says the DC agent trio
>(Creator, Contributor, Publisher) will be conflated into a Names element
>(attribute, in Z-terminology). Sounds like convergence to me
>
> stu
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