Re: author vs. creator

On 30 April 2012 21:58, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> 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.

Yup, as others have said, it was part of the rNews integration. We
should improve the documentation; I don't think it's terrible to have
both expressions.

The modern Dublin Core now has 'creator' rather than 'author', I
believe due to do the 3rd DC workshop
http://dublincore.org/workshops/dc3/ back in 1996, see report
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/oclc/01weibel.html ... since it
doesn't feel quite right to talk about the 'author' of an image. The
label for http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-creator
used to still include the word 'author', but it doesn't any more.

In that sense they're not 100% synonyms but I think treating them
'interchangabely' [er, thanks, we'll fix the typo] makes sense.

Dan

Received on Monday, 30 April 2012 20:12:52 UTC