Nota Bene: It is highly recommended that the user of this document read the Introduction to obtain a fuller understanding of Dublin Core and its implementation.
Many times, documents are created by more than one individual, sometimes referred to as coauthored. Many documents contain photographs taken by a photographer that is not the author of the document. Many documents in the form of papers may also have numerous authors. Authors providing relative equal contributions to the intellectual content should be entered as a Dublin Core author/creator element.
If the bulk of the intellectual content was created by one individual and there was minor but significant contributions by another creator(s), this is the Dublin Core element that should give them their deserved credit. Examples of these contributors are: editors, transcribers, illustrators, and photographers, and the list goes on. The element should look like:
<META NAME="DC.contributor" CONTENT="(SCHEME=AACR2) Luther, Martin
The qualifiers also mirror the author/creator and the publisher element but many other TYPEs are also desireable:
| SCHEME | LANG | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Standard BibTex | (default=English) Standard ISO 639 | ||
cataloging data) | |||
mailing address) | cataloging standard) | ||
telephone number) | |||
fax number) | |||
forms of name, etc.) | |||
Like the DC author/creator and the DC publisher elements, it has also been suggested that the home telephone, address, email, and FAX information of the contributor would be desireable. These are also TYPE qualifier data and are differentiated from the work information by the addition of home in front of its corresponding value. For example, HomeAddress, HomeEmail, etc. They are not separated by a space but the first letter of each word (optional) can be capitalized which does make it easier to read. Most people prefer a little more privacy, so if you intend to place someone else's location information data in the DC, its best to have their permission first.