Y, I agree.  What I want it to mean is "anyone who touched the document"...not 
necessarily those "responsible" for the resource:

"Contributor is the most general of the elements used for "agents" responsible 
for the resource"

Given that contributor is the most general, that seems the best fit available 
within dc.  Is there another standard we could look to (anything somewhere in 
XMP)?  Or should we define my broader/mis-use of "dc:contributor" and use it or 
should we branch to a homemade property?



-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Gauss [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: extracting contributor information?

For edits I'd say +1.

For annotations and comments I'm undecided, the DC definition is somewhat 
vague: "An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource."

If a user's comment is "this document is terrible" is he/she a contributor?

Regards,

Ray

> On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:31 PM, Allison, Timothy B. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> All,
>  It might be useful to extract contributor information (names of people who 
> made annotations/edits/comments) from at least MSOffice and PDF documents 
> into our Metadata object.  Any interest in this type of extraction?  Any 
> objections to using dc:contributor for this?
> 
>            Best,
> 
>                     Tim

Reply via email to