Quote:
Originally Posted by iain robinson
I was planning to put "Various authors" in the <dc:creator> tag (so as not to promote the first author to the only author) and then list the various author's names in amongst the keywords (<dc:subject>) so at least they are all in there (in case one day some software exists that actually cares about this sort of thing). Does that sound reasonable?
|
Well, I don't like that either, and it won't help with future software. "Various authors" is obviously not an author (and it only works in English, users in other languages would like the equivalent phrase in other languages, even if the book is in English), and the different actual authors are not really "subjects" of the book (unless the book is about them). Do you expect future software to recognize "Various authors" as a keyword indicating that the author names will be found in <dc:subject> tags?
If you (or your customer) cannot bear with the behaviour of current programs, I'd suggest simply adding "Various authors" as the first <dc:creator>, but leaving all the others there. If you are concerned about searching, I'd put the author names in the <dc:description> tag...
PS. This is only my personal opinion. You can obviously do whatever you want, there's no metadata police
