> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 03:46:12 -0500
> From: Eliot Christian <[log in to unmask]>
>
> My biggest issue in developing this context set is: What should we
> do when there is more than one index name with the same semantics
> within a given context set?

In general, I think we should absolutely avoid this.

However --

> For instance, in the Dublin Core context set
> http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/context-sets/dc.html, the
> index "author" is not included. Yet "dc.author" shows up often
> (e.g., examples given at
> http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/sru/test.htm ). My sense is
> that Dublin Core in practice accepts "author" as a semantic
> equivalent of "creator" (at least with respect to "document-like
> objects").
>
> So, should the CQL context set list "dc.author" as an alias for
> "dc.creator"?

This particular mistake may now be so widespread that we'd do better
to bend with the wind rather than breaking.

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