Issues of Surrogacy

• Many of the resources we describe are, in reality, surrogates for something else
  • we need to be clear whether we aredescribing the resource or its surrogate
    • the sculptor of a statue is often not the person who made its photographic surrogate
    • the model of the Forbidden City is unlikely to have been created at the same date as the Forbidden City itself
    • the format of a computer image of the Mona Lisa (image/jpeg ?)is not the same as the format of the original painting (oil on canvas ?).

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