I don't actually know why, but I can imagine a plausible answer: the  
MARC record does not distinguish between contributors and creators  
sufficiently well to separate out the x00 fields between them. Either  
everyone is a creator, or everyone is a contributor, or the main entry  
(100) is treated as a creator and everyone else a contributor.  
Whichever it is, some portion of the mapping will be wrong. What would  
be interesting would be a study that would show the relative ratios of  
right to wrong in the three (or more?) scenarios.

kc

Quoting Luciano Ramalho <[log in to unmask]>:

> I am mystified by the discovery that the MARC to DC Crosswalk does not
> map *any* MARC tag to the DC Creator element!
>
> http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html
>
> Does anyone know the reasoning behind this strange decision?
>
> --
> Luciano Ramalho
> programador repentista || stand-up programmer
> Twitter: @luciano
>



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