> >>7. if I make a resource available am I the publisher? Thus if I
> >>place a resource on the UCL web site it gains its authority from the
> >>fact that it is located at that domain and hence UCL is the
> >>publisher lending its imprimatur to my work, even though I made it
> >>available, or have I misunderstood?
> >>
>
>There has been much erudite discussion of this which reduces my
worry
>about raising the issue. It seems to me that "making a resource
>available" is not the same thing as publishing and that we can
expect
>the distinctions in this area to get greyer. My concern is using DC
>in an intranet setting where the concept of publisher is very
>difficult to interpret. Any advice?
Perhaps we shouldn't be too worried about not finding answers to this
question in practices for describing commercial publications. Libraries
have solutions for describing "ephemera" or "grey literature" that might
apply here. And solutions may also be found for describing some categories
of Web resources in archival practices.
Judith Pearce
Director, Web Services
National Library of Australia
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Australia
Phone: +61 2 62621425
Fax: +61 2 6273 3648
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NLA Web Site: http://www.nla.gov.au
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