Re: PDF author metadata

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 2016-07-07 5:38 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
> The standard does not take into account that the author of the document
> might be different from the author of the __content__ in the document?
> 
> What's more relevant when you search a document? The person who created
> the document in a computer or the author of the content of the document?
> Most of times it's the latter. If I have a library of ebooks and search
> an author name, I want to find the real author of the books, not the
> publisher name or whoever created the ebook.

Having just typeset an e-book, I would point out that the “Dublin Core”
metadata standard which EPUB files use explicitly lists the various
creators’ and contributors’ roles: a music score might have a Composer
[cmp] and a Typographer [tyg] but not necessarily an Author [aut].

—Joel C. Salomon