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Andrew Schuricht
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| 11-03-2006 6:44 AM |
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For those of you with images attached to herbarium records:
Who do you put in the Creator field? The person who assembled the herbarium sheet, or the person who scanned it?
The Dublin Core element definition says "The person(s) or organization(s) primarily responsible for the intellectual content of the resource. For example, authors in the case of written documents, artists, photographers, or illustrators in the case of visual resources."
I suppose if you wanted to skirt the issue you would just use your institution... |
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Robert Patterson
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| 11-03-2006 7:12 AM |
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We do not have herbarium records but we have debated this issue many times in our institution in regards to all types of multimedia documents. We have found through trial and error that the name that is most important to list as creator in the multimedia module is the creator of the multimedia item. We have had many instances where the multimedia item has been changed through improper conversion or editing and it was important to know who had created that multimedia derivative. The creator of the multimedia derivative is not always the person who inserts or modifies the multimedia record. We catalogue the original multimedia item (e.g. photograph, slide) in our catalogue and the photogapher/author is listed in the catalogue while the multimedia module is reserved for the creator of the multimedia derivative. All multimedia fields are reserved for the description of the multimedia item not the original document. Our multimedia documentalists take great pride in their attention to detail and "conversion" accuracy when working in the multimedia module and they certainly feel that they are primarily responsible for the intellectual content of the digital derivative. Other contributors are added to the other contributor
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In your example, we would list the person who scanned the document as the creator unless the person who attached the scanned document has manipulated it in some fashion. Then both names would probably be listed in the creator field. The person who assembled the sheet could be listed as a contributor in the multimedia module or an author in the catalogue.
We try at all times to keep a tight separation as to whether we are discussing a dublin core record for an artifact, or a dublin core record for a photograph, or a dublin core record for an article or a dublin core record for a multimedia derivative of any of the above. |
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