Re: author vs. creator

If I remember correctly, that comes from the rNews integration, because in some contexts, "author" is too narrow a word for the individual that created the piece of creative work.

On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Aaron Bradley wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what the difference is between "creator" and "author" in schema.org microdata, and under what circumstance I would ever use "creator" rather than "author"?
> 
> I've scoured all the schema.org page pages and there's not a single code example that uses "creator" in the code.
> 
> Here are the (infuriatingly vague, IMHO) descriptions of the two properties listed under CreativeWork:
> 
> author
> The author of this content. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangabely [sic].
> 
> creator
> The creator/author of this CreativeWork or UserComments. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.
> 
> And a related CreativeWork property:
> 
> sourceOrganization
> The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working.
> 
> No further clarity is to be gained from Google's Recipe example that actually mentions "creator", though not as a property [1].
> 
> Under properties recognized:
> 
> Property - author
> Description - Creator of the recipe. Can include nested Person information.
> 
> data-vocabulary.org markup example:
> By <span itemprop="author">Carol Smith</span>
> 
> So - again - under what circumstances would one use "creator" instead of "author"?  And if the answer is "they're fully interchangeable" why is "creator" part of the schema?
> 
> By the way, I'm aware of the DublinCore dc:author element, and it's relationship to the RSS "author" element [2] (the former being less restrictive than the latter), but I can't see why the existence of dc:creator would cause the property "creator" to surface in the schema.
> 
> 
> [1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173379
> 
> [2] http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#namespace-elements-dublin-creator
> 
> Thanks!
> Aaron Bradley
> 
> 

--------------------------------------------------------
martin hepp
e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

e-mail:  hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
phone:   +49-(0)89-6004-4217
fax:     +49-(0)89-6004-4620
www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
         http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
skype:   mfhepp 
twitter: mfhepp

Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
=================================================================
* Project Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Received on Monday, 30 April 2012 19:59:19 UTC