What is the difference between the Contact Person Primary and Contact Organization Primary elements?

In developing the metadata standard, reviewers asked for a way to distinguish cases in which the primary contact was a person, whose organizational affiliation was incidental, versus those in which the primary contact was an organization, whose personnel were incidental. The Contact Person Primary element is for the first case; the Contact Organization Primary is for the second. Both are comprised of the same elements; the difference is which elements are mandatory and which are optional.

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