4.4.3: Relationships between Resource and Agents

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Using agent properties in Dublin Core

Persons, organizations and services can relate to resources in various ways. DCMI defined only a few common properties to describe the relationship between resources and agents. So when necessary other vocabularies should be used describing these relationships more detailed. In these cases we recommend to use the marcrelator codes. How to use them is described in

Contributor

The contributor property represents a relationship between the resource and a person, an organization, or a service making a contribution to a resource.

Creator

The creator property represents a relationship between the resource and a person, an organization, or a service primarily responsible for making the content of a resource.

Publisher

The publisher property represents a relationship between the resource and a person, an organization, or a service responsible for making the resource available and provide access to the resource.

RightsHolder

This property represents a relationship between the resource and a person or an organization owning or managing rights over this resource.

Guidelines for the creation of content for agents

If you know there is a URI standing for a person or organization you should use it. For further information you should handle the person or organization like another resource.

Example with an organization:

rights holder	gnd	39454-3
	name	Bundesarchiv Koblenz
	homepage	http://www.bundesarchiv.de/index.html.de

as linked data

Example with a person:

contributor	gnd	135066719
	family name	Elliott
	given name	Missy
	nick name	Missy E

as linked data

Regardless of the existence of a URI personal names should be grouped in family name resp. surname as one part of the name and forename resp. given name as the other part .

You should handle the person name like another resource,

creator
	family name	Shakespeare
	given name	William

as linked data

or you could devide these names by comma.

creator

Shakespeare, William

as linked data

When you in doubt about family name and given name give the name as it appears.

contributor

Snoop Dogg

as linked data

If there is more than one contributor/creator/publisher/rightsHolder, each should be listed separately,

like another resource,

publisher	gnd	2125990-2
	name	Rossijskaja Gosudarstvennaja Biblioteka
	homepage	http://www.rsl.ru/
publisher
	name	Knižnaja Palata

as linked data

or with plain text.

creator	Hubble Telescope
publisher	University of Nowhere
publisher	All Your Data Inc.

as linked data