Dear Steve,
<snip>
Again, I think the solution is to be clear about what resource one is talking about
rather than to try to come up with separate terms for creator, language,
and created for three different types of resources.
</snip>
As an up-to-now passive watcher of this list and dwc/dc newbie, I am wondering how exactly one can make clear whether it is the specimen, image of metadata one is talking about?
Thanks for clarifying!
With best regards,
Aaike
On 14 Jan 2011, at 15:29, Steve Baskauf wrote:
It seems to me that part of the problem here is that there are several
types of resources that are being mixed. There is the specimen itself,
there is the image of the specimen, and there is the metadata record.
The person digitizing the specimen is the dc:creator of the specimen
image. The collector of the specimen or the collector's institution is
the dc:creator of the specimen. The person entering the metadata into
the computer or that person's institution is the dc:creator of the
metadata record. Of course a lot of people aren't going to care about
this level of detail in keeping separate records for those three types
of resources. But those same people also probably aren't going to care
about keeping separate records of who all of the different creators are
either.
The same kind of issue exists with other terms, such as dc:language and
dcterms:created. If you specify dc:language, is that the language on
the specimen label, the language of other things on the image (like text
on added scale bars), or the language of the metadata? Again, I think
the solution is to be clear about what resource one is talking about
rather than to try to come up with separate terms for creator, language,
and created for three different types of resources.
Steve
Gregor Hagedorn wrote:
Using Creator is ok for the person digitizing the specimen (although
contributor may be more appropriate), but the person who originally
wrote the label is an dc:creator as well.
dcterms are meant to have a wide scope and by information-lossy. My
comment is only: do not define: if there is a dc:creator, then it was
the person who digitized.
Gregor
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