Re: Dublin Core, the Primer and the Model Theory

On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:32 AM, Jeremy Carroll wrote:

> Premise:
>  <eg:doc1> <dc:creator> "John Smith" .
>  <eg:doc2> <dc:creator> "John Smith" .
> Conclusion:
>  <eg:doc1> <dc:creator> _:blank .
>  <eg:doc2> <dc:creator> _:blank .
>
> All Dublin Core users would recognise that it is not
> always true that the premise entail that the two documents
> have the same author i.e. they would recognise that there
> might be two Johns.

It's a little known fact that dc:creator doesn't mean what you might 
usually expect. It would more appropriately be named 
creatorResourceOrSometimesTheNameOfThatResourceButOcassionallySomethingElseEntirely 
but people found that too long to remember.

 From a plane somewhere between California and Chicago,
  - Aaron