JSC Secretary wrote:
The last paragraph of 2.4.2.3 says:
"If not all statements of responsibility appearing on the source or
sources of information are being recorded, give preference to those
identifying creators of the intellectual or artistic content. In case
of doubt, record the first statement."
I've been wondering: Which statement would be core in the case of an
edited collection, when you have one statement naming the editors and
another one naming the people who have contributed?
My gut feeling is that the editors are more important here, so in my
opinion the statement naming them should be the "core" one. But on the
other hand you could certainly say that it's the people who contributed
who are the creators of the intellectual or artistic content (even if
each of them is only the creator of his or her article). Then again, you
might argue that you're in doubt and resort to taking the first one as
core (in most cases, this will be the statement naming the editors). So
you'd have come full circle ;-)
Mind, I assume that most people would record both statements anyway (as
I would), so this is perhaps only a philosophical question. Still, I'd
like to get my rules clear on this point.
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Faculty of Information and Communication
Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
