[Dspace-general] Dublin Core Registry quesion: creator, contributor.author, etc.

[Jim Ottaviani]

Hello to the list, and particularly the folks who initially created the 
DC Registry for DSpace:

I have a Dublin Core related question: Why was "creator" (creator.null) 
reserved only for use by harvested metadata?

It seems to me, based on DC recommendatiosn, that in most cases 
"creator" (qualified or not) would be the appropriate place to put 
information that is currently recommended by DSpace (not DC) to go in 
e.g. the contributor.author fields.

Our concern is this: In DSpace the author browse and other functions 
depend on looking at, and subsequently displaying, data in all fields 
tagged with "contributor". We don't want that to break! But as we add 
author affiliations to a locally-created contributor.affiliation field 
(as per DC's recommendations) we start to see extra information in some 
of the displays. (For example our author display after a search can get 
very long and unwieldy, what with their contributor.affiliation also 
appearing.

Thanks,

Jim

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Jim Ottaviani
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University of Michigan Library
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