SDD Part 0: Introduction and Primer to the SDD Standard

3.14 Referencing contributors and sources

In SDD, this is a central repository for names of persons or organization, and is used throughout the data when attributing intellectual work, enabling management of authors, editors, contributors, translators and their respective contributions.

Agents are defined simply with a text string and an optional URL leading to more detailed information, as shown in the wire diagram and simple example below.

<Agents>
  <Agent id="a1">
    <Representation>
      <Label>Kevin Thiele</Label>
    </Representation>
  </Agent>
  <Agent id="a2">
    <Representation>
      <Label>Gregor Hagedorn</Label>
    </Representation>
  </Agent>
  <Agent id="a3">
    <Representation>
      <Label>Ali Baba</Label>
      <Detail role="Description">Ali Baba is also known as r.a.m.</Detail>
    </Representation>
  </Agent>
</Agents>

The <Representation> element provides a label for the description. This may be useful if the instance document includes multiple descriptions for different purposes, or is intended for publication in multiple languages (see the topic Language support in SDD.

-- DonovanSharp - 09 Jun 2006