Feature #6327
closed
Please discuss this with me before changing it. The use of the word 'Creator' has a long history in the field. There are subtleties with the use of the various terms. Because these are not 'Owners' in a legal sense, people have used a lot of other terms to indicate who created the data, including 'Creator', 'Originator', and 'Author', all of which have their downsides. Creator has a lot of traction in the bibliographic metadata standards (Dublin Core) as well as places like EML in our field.
- Status changed from New to Resolved
After all the reviewing we have had by people outside and within NCEAS, I have only had one person confused by this term, so we will keep it.
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