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.
The publisher of the Web document is determined by who the author has his Internet account with. If the author has an .edu at the end of his e-mail address, the publisher is the Institution the author is affiliated with. For example, the author of this document is affiliated with Florida State University and the Dublin Core publisher element looks like this:
<META NAME="DC.publisher" CONTENT="Florida State Univesity">Other, common publishers might be American Online or Compuserve and countless more organizations (host:.org), corporations (host:.com), etc. providing free or fee Web space. The table below mirrors that of the author/creator element.
| TYPE | SCHEME | LANG |
|---|---|---|
Standard BibTex | (default=English) Standard ISO 639 | |
email address) | cataloging data) | |
mailing address) | cataloging standard) | |
telephone number) | ||
fax number) | ||
forms of name, etc.) |
Like the DC author/creator element, it has also been suggested that the home telephone, address, email, and FAX information of the publisher 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.
Concurrently, the same rules apply to the telephone numbers, MARC structure, etc., as to that of the author/creator element. Telephone numbers should reflect the World Standard Format: Country-Code Area-Code Local-Number, ie. +00 123 644 1234. The Meta Element is:
<META NAME="DC.publisher.phone" CONTENT="+00 123 644 1234">
The MARC structure for corporate bodies is even more complicated than the author/creator element. A generic corporate body MARC field resembles the below example:
110 2 $a Davis Auto and Marine
The Meta Element:
<META NAME="DC.publisher" CONTENT="(SCHEME=USMARC) 110 2 $a Davis Auto and Marine.">
The 110 is a tag reserved for corporate authors, the 2 is an indicator that tells the computer (and the cataloger) the name is in direct order, the $a is a subfield where the name would be placed.