[uf-discuss] haudio contributor

[Alf Eaton]

Manu Sporny wrote:
> Alf Eaton wrote:
>> How about this:
>> * All "contributors" played a role in the creation of the audio.
>> * If there's one or more "creators", those entities played a primary role.
> 
> We looked at that approach, and found that we didn't have the examples
> to back up the argument that we should make the distinction between
> "creator" and "contributor" because there weren't enough examples that
> clearly listed anybody other than the creator, and because hCard already
> has a "role" field.
> 
> If you really want to make the distinction between a publisher, a
> drummer, a singer, a technician, and someone else, you can always use an
> hCard and utilize the "role" property[1].
> 
>> But then I'm struggling to think of actual examples where your rule
>> wouldn't be enough (though having to list the main contributor at the
>> start of the list might be one problem). It just feels wrong not to be
>> able to explicitly mark the primary creator(s) when, as you say,
>> sometimes you do want to do just that.
> 
> You can do this using "role" in hCard when describing the contributor.
> If this doesn't work for you, you can use hCard RDFa which does
> differentiate between the primary creator(s) and contributors.
> 
>> What if there are two primary creators (composer and performer, say) and
>> the rest are just auxiliary contributors?
> 
> You could mark up each primary creator's "role" using hCard to describe
> each creator. You could not specify the auxiliary contributors' roles,
> or you could specify them - it's up to you to determine how specific you
> want to be.
> 
> Does that work for your needs?

It would work, but so would a number of very complicated things. My needs are essentially very simple:

<artist>Primal Scream</artist> - <album>Screamadelica</album>

so

<span class="creator">Primal Scream</span> - <span class="album">Screamadelica</span>

is simpler than

<span class="contributor vcard"><abbr class="role" title="creator"/><span class="fn">Primal Scream</span></span> - <span class="album">Screamadelica</span>,

hence I like it.

If there really "weren't enough examples that clearly listed anybody other than the creator", doesn't that make things easier?

alf