Perhaps one problem we're going to face is that "Creator" and
"Publisher" mean different things to Librarians (as an example) than to
Jo Average collection owner.
If we can identify some terms to use which are non-domain-specific, then
there will be less chance of causing confusion.
>From my perspective as a software engineer, a "publisher" is the entity
who makes a work available for consumption. So for example, the
publisher of a particular novel I have is "Del Rey Books". The name of
the printer is irrelevant to me, but I can find that out, since there's
a little piece of text on one of the pages along the lines of "Printed
by ..., London UK".
The publisher of a particular web page (eg: http://www.slashdot.org/)
might be "Andover Net", the company that now owns the Slashdot name and
domain, and the machines that the web site is published on/from. The
Creator of SlashDot is Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. That's easy.
What about my Hiking pages (of no fixed abode), which were previously
available on a server run by a club I was a member of? The club has no
control or jurisdiction over my pages except to tell me to take them
down if they contain offensive material. Am I the publisher? Or does
Publisher get dropped since I'm the Creator, and the rules say that if
publisher and creator are the same, you drop publisher?
Alex
David Bearman wrote:
>
> This is, by the way, why I once remember proposing that Agent and Role are
> more meaningful ways to slice the cake than the three DC fields...And why
> qualifying one of the three DC fields won't necessarily produce a
> consistent view...
> David
>
> At 08:59 AM 9/10/99 -0400, James Weinheimer wrote:
> >Alex Satrapa wrote:
> >
> >> Anthony Finkelstein wrote:
> >> > 7. if I make a resource available am I the publisher?
> >
> >> Apparently because publishing a work on a Web site costs nothing
> >> (besides your effort, hard drive space and your internet connection),
> >> you're not really publishing that work.
> >>
> >>
> >> But seriously, ...i
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