Re: [CLBP] Participation agreement

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:31:27 -0700, "Sai Emrys" <saizai@...> said:
> On 10/29/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > What are the reasons for the selection of the credit points method?
> > And is it intended to be this way with all its consequences?
>
> 's my attempt at fairness.
>
> > If 100 points are available per book, then there will practicably only
> > be one primary author and in the presense of a primary author, there
> > will be max. one co-author.
> >
> > And if three people write about 1/3 of the content each, then there
> > will be no primary author (which may be ok).  At maximum, there will
> > be only three authors (primary or co-), which I find strange if large
> > portions of the book are written by more people to equal parts.
>
> Primary / co authorship in this case is meant as "what goes on the
> cover", basically.
>
> The reason for max-3 is simply that AFAIK that's the normal limit
> practically speaking.
FWIW, if the book ends up being cataloged by OCLC (Online Computer
Library Center--the source for catalog records for libraries) and
University libraries, there is a limit of 3 access points for authors.
What this means in layman's terms is that someone could do a search in
a library's catalog for up to 3 people as "author." Any more than that
and only the *first* author has an access point. (Don't ask me why,
that's just the way it is.) This is called, informally, the "rule of
three." No catalog record can have more than three access points for
authors, or editors.

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James W.

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