Re: offeredBy to supersede vendor, merchant, provider, seller, …?

Ok, then in that case I would suggest that we drop that sentence, unless 
someone can explain further what it means in terms of the data entry.

kc

On 6/17/14, 1:39 PM, Wallis,Richard wrote:
> I was just taking and tweaking a bit the current description of
> provider: “The person or organization providing the service,
> reservation, or creative work. The provider may subcontract out the
> service.”
>
> ~Richard
>
> On 17 Jun 2014, at 20:46, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net
> <mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>
>> Richard, can you explain what the 'subcontract' bit is about? Are you
>> saying that one should encode the provider, not the subcontractor?
>>
>> My gut feeling is that knowing who has subcontracted to whom may be a
>> bridge too far, so maybe provider should just be... who you wish to
>> call the provider.
>>
>> kc
>>
>> On 6/17/14, 10:42 AM, Wallis,Richard wrote:
>>> Maybe “The person or organization providing the service, item, product,
>>> reservation, or creative work. The provider may subcontract out the
>>> supply of such.” - would be fractionally better.
>>>
>>> ~Richard
>>>
>>> On 17 Jun 2014, at 18:40, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org
>>> <mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>
>>> <mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Building on your suggestions, I would be tempted to change the
>>>> description of ‘provider' to “The person or organization providing the
>>>> service, item, reservation, or creative work. The provider may
>>>> subcontract out the supply of such.”,
>>>
>>
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>>
>

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