Thank you very much Rebecca, Karen and Esme for your replies. It is
really a privilege to be able to ask a question here and get answers
like these.
Regarding the DC Creator issue, I probably nave a different
perspective on DC than many here, because my first contact with DC was
not as a librarian
The reason we used DC Contributor instead of Creator is because the semantics
do not map well to MARC creators/contributors. Creators in MARC can be in 1XX
and 7XX; since 1XX is not repeatable, additional creators go in 7XX.
Contributors in Dublin Core play a secondary role in the resource ("An
I don't actually know why, but I can imagine a plausible answer: the
MARC record does not distinguish between contributors and creators
sufficiently well to separate out the x00 fields between them. Either
everyone is a creator, or everyone is a contributor, or the main entry
(100) is treat
It looks like it's using Contributor instead. So I'm guessing the sticking
point is that it's hard to figure out what Contributors are primary, so it's
safer to just punt and put them all in Contributor instead.
-Esme
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Esme Cowles
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