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How can I know if a 700 is an analytic, or just a related work? Can I even call a person listed in a 700 a "contributor" if it's got a $t? It might not be a contributor at all, but just the author of a related work.

Obviously, a single cataloger can't be expected to spend hours recording every possible bit of metadata that could apply to a work, nor can most libraries provide the level of funding to afford that. However, it ought to be possible to distribute the work and incrementally improve our metadata; although bibliographic utilities could be a nexus for that sort work, valuable information often gets left out of many records.