MARC Code List for Relators
<div class="relatorsAbout" title="About the Relator Codes:" datatype="rdf:XMLLiteral" property="rdfs:comment">Relator terms and their associated codes designate the relationship between a name and a bibliographic resource. The relator codes are three-character lowercase alphabetic strings that serve as identifiers. Either the term or the code may be used as controlled values.</div>
Actor
act
Use for a person or organization who
principally exhibits acting skills in a musical or
dramatic presentation or entertainment.
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Adapter
adp
Use for a person or organization who 1)
reworks a musical composition, usually for a
different medium, or 2) rewrites novels or stories
for motion pictures or other audiovisual
medium.
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Analyst
anl
Use for a person or organization that
reviews, examines and interprets data or information
in a specific area.
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Animator
anm
Use for a person or organization who draws
the two-dimensional figures, manipulates the three
dimensional objects and/or also programs the
computer to move objects and images for the purpose
of animated film processing. Animation cameras,
stands, celluloid screens, transparencies and inks
are some of the tools of the animator.
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Annotator
ann
Use for a person who writes manuscript
annotations on a printed item.
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Applicant
app
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the submission of an application or
who is named as eligible for the results of the
processing of the application (e.g., bestowing of
rights, reward, title, position).
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Architect
arc
Use for a person or organization who
designs structures or oversees their
construction.
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Arranger
arr
Use for a person or organization who
transcribes a musical composition, usually for a
different medium from that of the original; in an
arrangement the musical substance remains
essentially unchanged.
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Art copyist
acp
Use for a person (e.g., a painter or
sculptor) who makes copies of works of visual
art.
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Artist
art
Use for a person (e.g., a painter) or
organization who conceives, and perhaps also
implements, an original graphic design or work of
art, if specific codes (e.g., [egr], [etr]) are not
desired. For book illustrators, prefer Illustrator
[ill].
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Graphic technician
Relator term "Graphic technician" (coded [grt]) used before March 1988 only.
Artistic director
ard
Use for a person responsible for
controlling the development of the artistic style of
an entire production, including the choice of works
to be presented and selection of senior production
staff.
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Assignee
asg
Use for a person or organization to whom a
license for printing or publishing has been
transferred.
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Associated name
asn
Use for a person or organization
associated with or found in an item or collection,
which cannot be determined to be that of a Former
owner [fmo] or other designated relator indicative
of provenance.
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Attributed name
att
Use for an author, artist, etc., relating
him/her to a work for which there is or once was
substantial authority for designating that person as
author, creator, etc. of the work.
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Supposed name
Auctioneer
auc
Use for a person or organization in charge
of the estimation and public auctioning of goods,
particularly books, artistic works,
etc.
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Author
aut
Use for a person or organization chiefly
responsible for the intellectual or artistic content
of a work, usually printed text. This term may also
be used when more than one person or body bears such
responsibility.
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Joint author
Author in quotations or text
extracts
aqt
Use for a person or organization whose
work is largely quoted or extracted in works to
which he or she did not contribute directly. Such
quotations are found particularly in exhibition
catalogs, collections of photographs,
etc.
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Author of afterword, colophon,
etc.
aft
Use for a person or organization
responsible for an afterword, postface, colophon,
etc. but who is not the chief author of a
work.
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Author of dialog
aud
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the dialog or spoken commentary for
a screenplay or sound recording.
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Author of introduction, etc.
aui
Use for a person or organization
responsible for an introduction, preface, foreword,
or other critical introductory matter, but who is
not the chief author.
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Author of screenplay, etc.
aus
Use for a person or organization
responsible for a motion picture screenplay, dialog,
spoken commentary, etc.
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Bibliographic antecedent
ant
Use for a person or organization
responsible for a work upon which the work
represented by the catalog record is based. This may
be appropriate for adaptations, sequels,
continuations, indexes, etc.
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Binder
bnd
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the binding of printed or manuscript
materials.
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Binding designer
bdd
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the binding design of a book,
including the type of binding, the type of materials
used, and any decorative aspects of the binding.
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Designer of binding
Blurb writer
blw
Use for the named entity responsible for writing a commendation
or testimonial for a work, which appears on or within the publication
itself, frequently on the back or dust jacket of print publications or
on advertising material for all media.
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Book designer
bkd
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the entire graphic design of a book,
including arrangement of type and illustration,
choice of materials, and process used.
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Designer of book
Book producer
bkp
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the production of books and other
print media, if specific codes (e.g., [bkd], [egr],
[tyd], [prt]) are not desired.
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Producer of book
Bookjacket designer
bjd
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the design of flexible covers
designed for or published with a book, including the
type of materials used, and any decorative aspects
of the bookjacket.
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Designer of bookjacket
Bookplate designer
bpd
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the design of a book owner's
identification label that is most commonly pasted to
the inside front cover of a book.
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Designer of bookplate
Bookseller
bsl
Use for a person or organization who makes
books and other bibliographic materials available
for purchase. Interest in the materials is primarily
lucrative.
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Calligrapher
cll
Use for a person or organization who
writes in an artistic hand, usually as a copyist and
or engrosser.
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Cartographer
ctg
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the creation of maps and other
cartographic materials.
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Censor
cns
Use for a censor, bowdlerizer, expurgator,
etc., official or private.
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Bowdlerizer
Expurgator
Choreographer
chr
Use for a person or organization who
composes or arranges dances or other movements
(e.g., "master of swords") for a musical or dramatic
presentation or entertainment.
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Cinematographer
cng
Use for a person or organization who is in
charge of the images captured for a motion picture
film. The cinematographer works under the
supervision of a director, and may also be referred
to as director of photography. Do not confuse with
videographer.
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Client
cli
Use for a person or organization for whom
another person or organization is
acting.
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Collaborator
clb
Use for a person or organization that
takes a limited part in the elaboration of a work of
another person or organization that brings
complements (e.g., appendices, notes) to the
work.
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Collector
col
Use for a person or organization who has
brought together material from various sources that
has been arranged, described, and cataloged as a
collection. A collector is neither the creator of
the material nor a person to whom manuscripts in the
collection may have been addressed.
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Collotyper
clt
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the production of photographic
prints from film or other colloid that has
ink-receptive and ink-repellent
surfaces.
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Colorist
clr
Use for the named entity responsible for applying color to
drawings, prints, photographs, maps, moving images, etc.
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Commentator
cmm
Use for a person or organization who
provides interpretation, analysis, or a discussion
of the subject matter on a recording, motion
picture, or other audiovisual medium.
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Commentator for written text
cwt
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the commentary or explanatory notes
about a text. For the writer of manuscript
annotations in a printed book, use Annotator
[ann].
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Compiler
com
Use for a person or organization who
produces a work or publication by selecting and
putting together material from the works of various
persons or bodies.
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Complainant
cpl
Use for the party who applies to the
courts for redress, usually in an equity
proceeding.
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Complainant-appellant
cpt
Use for a complainant who takes an appeal
from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse
the judgment, usually in an equity
proceeding.
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Complainant-appellee
cpe
Use for a complainant against whom an
appeal is taken from one court or jurisdiction to
another to reverse the judgment, usually in an
equity proceeding.
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Composer
cmp
Use for a person or organization who
creates a musical work, usually a piece of music in
manuscript or printed form.
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Compositor
cmt
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the creation of metal slug, or molds
made of other materials, used to produce the text
and images in printed matter.
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Typesetter
Conceptor
ccp
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the original idea on which a work is
based, this includes the scientific author of an
audio-visual item and the conceptor of an
advertisement.
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Conductor
cnd
Use for a person who directs a performing
group (orchestra, chorus, opera, etc.) in a musical
or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
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Conservator
con
Use for the named entity responsible for documenting,
preserving, or treating printed or manuscript material, works of art,
artifacts, or other media.
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Preservationist
Consultant
csl
Use for a person or organization relevant
to a resource, who is called upon for professional
advice or services in a specialized field of
knowledge or training.
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Consultant to a project
csp
Use for a person or organization relevant
to a resource, who is engaged specifically to
provide an intellectual overview of a strategic or
operational task and by analysis, specification, or
instruction, to create or propose a cost-effective
course of action or solution.
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Contestant
cos
Use for the party who opposes, resists, or
disputes, in a court of law, a claim, decision,
result, etc.
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Contestant-appellant
cot
Use for a contestant who takes an appeal
from one court of law or jurisdiction to another to
reverse the judgment.
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Contestant-appellee
coe
Use for a contestant against whom an
appeal is taken from one court of law or
jurisdiction to another to reverse the
judgment.
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Contestee
cts
Use for the party defending a claim,
decision, result, etc. being opposed, resisted, or
disputed in a court of law.
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Contestee-appellant
ctt
Use for a contestee who takes an appeal
from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse
the judgment.
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Contestee-appellee
cte
Use for a contestee against whom an appeal
is taken from one court or jurisdiction to another
to reverse the judgment.
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Contractor
ctr
Use for a person or organization relevant
to a resource, who enters into a contract with
another person or organization to perform a specific
task.
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Contributor
ctb
Use for a person or organization one whose
work has been contributed to a larger work, such as
an anthology, serial publication, or other
compilation of individual works. Do not use if the
sole function in relation to a work is as author,
editor, compiler or translator.
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Copyright claimant
cpc
Use for a person or organization listed as
a copyright owner at the time of registration.
Copyright can be granted or later transferred to
another person or organization, at which time the
claimant becomes the copyright holder.
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Copyright holder
cph
Use for a person or organization to whom
copy and legal rights have been granted or
transferred for the intellectual content of a work.
The copyright holder, although not necessarily the
creator of the work, usually has the exclusive right
to benefit financially from the sale and use of the
work to which the associated copyright protection
applies.
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Corrector
crr
Use for a person or organization who is a
corrector of manuscripts, such as the scriptorium
official who corrected the work of a scribe. For
printed matter, use Proofreader [pfr].
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Correspondent
crp
Use for a person or organization who was
either the writer or recipient of a letter or other
communication.
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Costume designer
cst
Use for a person or organization who
designs or makes costumes, fixes hair, etc., for a
musical or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
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Cover designer
cov
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the graphic design of a book cover,
album cover, slipcase, box, container, etc. For a
person or organization responsible for the graphic
design of an entire book, use Book designer; for
book jackets, use Bookjacket designer.
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Designer of cover
Creator
cre
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the intellectual or artistic content
of a work.
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Curator of an exhibition
cur
Use for a person or organization
responsible for conceiving and organizing an
exhibition.
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Dancer
dnc
Use for a person or organization who
principally exhibits dancing skills in a musical or
dramatic presentation or entertainment.
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Data contributor
dtc
Use for a person or organization that
submits data for inclusion in a database or other
collection of data.
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Data manager
dtm
Use for a person or organization
responsible for managing databases or other data
sources.
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Dedicatee
dte
Use for a person or organization to whom a
book, manuscript, etc., is dedicated (not the
recipient of a gift).
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Dedicator
dto
Use for the author of a dedication, which
may be a formal statement or in epistolary or verse
form.
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Defendant
dfd
Use for the party defending or denying
allegations made in a suit and against whom relief
or recovery is sought in the courts, usually in a
legal action.
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Defendant-appellant
dft
Use for a defendant who takes an appeal
from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse
the judgment, usually in a legal
action.
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Defendant-appellee
dfe
Use for a defendant against whom an appeal
is taken from one court or jurisdiction to another
to reverse the judgment, usually in a legal
action.
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Degree grantor
dgg
Use for the organization granting a degree
for which the thesis or dissertation described was
presented.
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Delineator
dln
Use for a person or organization executing
technical drawings from others'
designs.
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Depicted
dpc
Use for an entity depicted or portrayed in
a work, particularly in a work of art.
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Depositor
dpt
Use for a person or organization placing
material in the physical custody of a library or
repository without transferring the legal
title.
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Designer
dsr
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the design if more specific codes
(e.g., [bkd], [tyd]) are not desired.
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Director
drt
Use for a person or organization who is
responsible for the general management of a work or
who supervises the production of a performance for
stage, screen, or sound recording.
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Dissertant
dis
Use for a person who presents a thesis for
a university or higher-level educational
degree.
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Distribution place
dbp
Use for the name of a place from which a resource,
e.g., a serial, is distributed.
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Distributor
dst
Use for a person or organization that has
exclusive or shared marketing rights for an
item.
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Donor
dnr
Use for a person or organization who is
the donor of a book, manuscript, etc., to its
present owner. Donors to previous owners are
designated as Former owner[fmo] or Inscriber
[ins].
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Draftsman
drm
Use for a person or organization who
prepares artistic or technical drawings.
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Technical draftsman
Dubious author
dub
Use for a person or organization to which
authorship has been dubiously or incorrectly
ascribed.
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Editor
edt
Use for a person or organization who
prepares for publication a work not primarily
his/her own, such as by elucidating text, adding
introductory or other critical matter, or
technically directing an editorial
staff.
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Electrician
elg
Use for a person responsible for setting
up a lighting rig and focusing the lights for a
production, and running the lighting at a
performance.
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Chief electrician
House electrician
Master electrician
Electrotyper
elt
Use for a person or organization who
creates a duplicate printing surface by pressure
molding and electrodepositing of metal that is then
backed up with lead for printing.
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Engineer
eng
Use for a person or organization that is
responsible for technical planning and design,
particularly with construction.
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Engraver
egr
Use for a person or organization who cuts
letters, figures, etc. on a surface, such as a
wooden or metal plate, for printing.
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Etcher
etr
Use for a person or organization who
produces text or images for printing by subjecting
metal, glass, or some other surface to acid or the
corrosive action of some other
substance.
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Event place
evp
Use for the name of the place where an event such
as a conference or a concert took place.
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Expert
exp
Use for a person or organization in charge
of the description and appraisal of the value of
goods, particularly rare items, works of art, etc.
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Appraiser
Facsimilist
fac
Use for a person or organization that
executed the facsimile.
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Copier
Field director
fld
Use for a person or organization that
manages or supervises the work done to collect raw
data or do research in an actual setting or
environment (typically applies to the natural and
social sciences).
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Film editor
flm
Use for a person or organization who is an
editor of a motion picture film. This term is used
regardless of the medium upon which the motion
picture is produced or manufactured (e.g., acetate
film, video tape).
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Motion picture editor
First party
fpy
Use for a person or organization who is
identified as the only party or the party of the
first part. In the case of transfer of right, this
is the assignor, transferor, licensor, grantor, etc.
Multiple parties can be named jointly as the first
party
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Forger
frg
Use for a person or organization who makes
or imitates something of value or importance,
especially with the intent to defraud.
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Copier
Counterfeiter
Former owner
fmo
Use for a person or organization who owned
an item at any time in the past. Includes those to
whom the material was once presented. A person or
organization giving the item to the present owner is
designated as Donor [dnr].
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Funder
fnd
Use for a person or organization that
furnished financial support for the production of
the work.
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Geographic information
specialist
gis
Use for a person responsible for
geographic information system (GIS) development and
integration with global positioning system data..
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Geospatial information specialist
Honoree
hnr
Use for a person or organization in memory
or honor of whom a book, manuscript, etc. is
donated.
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Memorial
Host
hst
Use for a person who is invited or
regularly leads a program (often broadcast) that
includes other guests, performers, etc. (e.g., talk
show host).
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Illuminator
ilu
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the decoration of a work (especially
manuscript material) with precious metals or color,
usually with elaborate designs and
motifs.
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Illustrator
ill
Use for a person or organization who
conceives, and perhaps also implements, a design or
illustration, usually to accompany a written
text.
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Inscriber
ins
Use for a person who signs a presentation
statement.
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Instrumentalist
itr
Use for a person or organization who
principally plays an instrument in a musical or
dramatic presentation or entertainment.
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Interviewee
ive
Use for a person or organization who is
interviewed at a consultation or meeting, usually by
a reporter, pollster, or some other information
gathering agent.
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Interviewer
ivr
Use for a person or organization who acts
as a reporter, pollster, or other information
gathering agent in a consultation or meeting
involving one or more individuals.
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Inventor
inv
Use for a person or organization who first
produces a particular useful item, or develops a new
process for obtaining a known item or
result.
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Laboratory
lbr
Use for an institution that provides
scientific analyses of material
samples.
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Laboratory director
ldr
Use for a person or organization that
manages or supervises work done in a controlled
setting or environment.
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Lab director
Lead
led
Use to indicate that a person or
organization takes primary responsibility for a
particular activity or endeavor. Use with another
relator term or code to show the greater importance
this person or organization has regarding that
particular role. If more than one relator is
assigned to a heading, use the Lead relator only if
it applies to all the relators.
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Landscape architect
lsa
Use for a person or organization whose
work involves coordinating the arrangement of
existing and proposed land features and
structures.
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Lender
len
Use for a person or organization
permitting the temporary use of a book, manuscript,
etc., such as for photocopying or
microfilming.
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Libelant
lil
Use for the party who files a libel in an
ecclesiastical or admiralty case.
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Libelant-appellant
lit
Use for a libelant who takes an appeal
from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to
another to reverse the judgment.
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Libelant-appellee
lie
Use for a libelant against whom an appeal
is taken from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty
to another to reverse the judgment.
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Libelee
lel
Use for a party against whom a libel has
been filed in an ecclesiastical court or
admiralty.
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Libelee-appellant
let
Use for a libelee who takes an appeal from
one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to
reverse the judgment.
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Libelee-appellee
lee
Use for a libelee against whom an appeal
is taken from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty
to another to reverse the judgment.
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Librettist
lbt
Use for a person or organization who is a
writer of the text of an opera, oratorio,
etc.
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Licensee
lse
Use for a person or organization who is an
original recipient of the right to print or
publish.
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Licensor
lso
Use for person or organization who is a
signer of the license, imprimatur, etc.
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Imprimatur
Lighting designer
lgd
Use for a person or organization who
designs the lighting scheme for a theatrical
presentation, entertainment, motion picture, etc.
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Lithographer
ltg
Use for a person or organization who
prepares the stone or plate for lithographic
printing, including a graphic artist creating a
design directly on the surface from which printing
will be done.
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Lyricist
lyr
Use for a person or organization who is
the a writer of the text of a song.
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Manufacturer
mfr
Use for a person or organization that
makes an artifactual work (an object made or
modified by one or more persons). Examples of
artifactual works include vases, cannons or pieces
of furniture.
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Marbler
mrb
Use for the named entity responsible for marbling paper, cloth,
leather, etc. used in construction of a resource.
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Markup editor
mrk
Use for a person or organization
performing the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup
of metadata, text, etc.
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Metadata contact
mdc
Use for a person or organization primarily
responsible for compiling and maintaining the
original description of a metadata set (e.g.,
geospatial metadata set).
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Metal-engraver
mte
Use for a person or organization
responsible for decorations, illustrations, letters,
etc. cut on a metal surface for printing or
decoration.
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Moderator
mod
Use for a person who leads a program
(often broadcast) where topics are discussed,
usually with participation of experts in fields
related to the discussion.
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Monitor
mon
Use for a person or organization that
supervises compliance with the contract and is
responsible for the report and controls its
distribution. Sometimes referred to as the grantee,
or controlling agency.
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Music copyist
mcp
Use for a person who transcribes or copies
musical notation.
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Musical director
msd
Use for a person responsible for basic
music decisions about a production, including
coordinating the work of the composer, the sound
editor, and sound mixers, selecting musicians, and
organizing and/or conducting sound for rehearsals
and performances.
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Musician
mus
Use for a person or organization who
performs music or contributes to the musical content
of a work when it is not possible or desirable to
identify the function more precisely.
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Narrator
nrt
Use for a person who is a speaker relating
the particulars of an act, occurrence, or course of
events.
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Opponent
opn
Use for a person or organization
responsible for opposing a thesis or
dissertation.
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Organizer of meeting
orm
Use for a person or organization
responsible for organizing a meeting for which an
item is the report or proceedings.
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Originator
org
Use for a person or organization
performing the work, i.e., the name of a person or
organization associated with the intellectual
content of the work. This category does not include
the publisher or personal affiliation, or sponsor
except where it is also the corporate author.
Includes a person designated in the work as
investigator or principal investigator.
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Principal investigator
Other
oth
Use for relator codes from other lists
which have no equivalent in the MARC list or for
terms which have not been assigned a
code.
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Owner
own
Use for a person or organization that
currently owns an item or collection.
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Papermaker
ppm
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the production of paper, usually
from wood, cloth, or other fibrous
material.
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Patent applicant
pta
Use for a person or organization that
applied for a patent.
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Patent holder
pth
Use for a person or organization that was
granted the patent referred to by the item.
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Patentee
Patron
pat
Use for a person or organization
responsible for commissioning a work. Usually a
patron means or influence to support the work of
artists, writers, etc. This includes those who
commission and pay for individual
works.
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Performer
prf
Use for a person or organization who
exhibits musical or acting skills in a musical or
dramatic presentation or entertainment, if specific
codes for those functions ([act], [dnc], [itr],
[voc], etc.) are not used. If specific codes are
used, [prf] is used for a person whose principal
skill is not known or specified.
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Permitting agency
pma
Use for an authority (usually a government
agency) that issues permits under which work is
accomplished.
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Photographer
pht
Use for a person or organization
responsible for taking photographs, whether they are
used in their original form or as
reproductions.
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Plaintiff
ptf
Use for the party who complains or sues in
court in a personal action, usually in a legal
proceeding.
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Plaintiff-appellant
ptt
Use for a plaintiff who takes an appeal
from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse
the judgment, usually in a legal
proceeding.
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Plaintiff-appellee
pte
Use for a plaintiff against whom an appeal
is taken from one court or jurisdiction to another
to reverse the judgment, usually in a legal
proceeding.
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Platemaker
plt
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the production of plates, usually
for the production of printed images and/or
text.
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Printer
prt
Use for a person or organization who
prints texts, whether from type or
plates.
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Printer of plates
pop
Use for a person or organization who
prints illustrations from plates.
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Plates, Printer of
Printmaker
prm
Use for a person or organization who makes
a relief, intaglio, or planographic printing
surface.
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Process contact
prc
Use for a person or organization primarily
responsible for performing or initiating a process,
such as is done with the collection of metadata
sets.
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Producer
pro
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the making of a motion picture,
including business aspects, management of the
productions, and the commercial success of the
work.
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Production manager
pmm
Use for a person responsible for all
technical and business matters in a
production.
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Production personnel
prd
Use for a person or organization
associated with the production (props, lighting,
special effects, etc.) of a musical or dramatic
presentation or entertainment.
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Programmer
prg
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the creation and/or maintenance of
computer program design documents, source code, and
machine-executable digital files and supporting
documentation.
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Project director
pdr
Use for a person or organization with
primary responsibility for all essential aspects of
a project, or that manages a very large project that
demands senior level responsibility, or that has
overall responsibility for managing projects, or
provides overall direction to a project manager.
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Proofreader
pfr
Use for a person who corrects printed
matter. For manuscripts, use Corrector
[crr].
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Publication place
pup
Use for the name of the place where a resource is published.
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Publisher
pbl
Use for a person or organization that
makes printed matter, often text, but also printed
music, artwork, etc. available to the
public.
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Publishing director
pbd
Use for a person or organization who
presides over the elaboration of a collective work
to ensure its coherence or continuity. This includes
editors-in-chief, literary editors, editors of
series, etc.
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Puppeteer
ppt
Use for a person or organization who
manipulates, controls, or directs puppets or
marionettes in a musical or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
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Recipient
rcp
Use for a person or organization to whom
correspondence is addressed.
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Recording engineer
rce
Use for a person or organization who
supervises the technical aspects of a sound or video
recording session.
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Redactor
red
Use for a person or organization who
writes or develops the framework for an item without
being intellectually responsible for its
content.
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Renderer
ren
Use for a person or organization who
prepares drawings of architectural designs (i.e.,
renderings) in accurate, representational
perspective to show what the project will look like
when completed.
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Reporter
rpt
Use for a person or organization who
writes or presents reports of news or current events
on air or in print.
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Repository
rps
Use for an agency that hosts data or
material culture objects and provides services to
promote long term, consistent and shared use of
those data or objects.
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Research team head
rth
Use for a person who directed or managed a
research project.
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Research team member
rtm
Use for a person who participated in a
research project but whose role did not involve
direction or management of it.
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Researcher
res
Use for a person or organization
responsible for performing research.
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Performer of research
Respondent
rsp
Use for the party who makes an answer to
the courts pursuant to an application for redress,
usually in an equity proceeding.
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Respondent-appellant
rst
Use for a respondent who takes an appeal
from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse
the judgment, usually in an equity
proceeding.
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Respondent-appellee
rse
Use for a respondent against whom an
appeal is taken from one court or jurisdiction to
another to reverse the judgment, usually in an
equity proceeding.
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Responsible party
rpy
Use for a person or organization legally
responsible for the content of the published
material.
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Restager
rsg
Use for a person or organization , other
than the original choreographer or director,
responsible for restaging a choreographic or
dramatic work and who contributes minimal new
content.
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Reviewer
rev
Use for a person or organization
responsible for the review of a book, motion
picture, performance, etc.
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Rubricator
rbr
Use for a person or organization
responsible for parts of a work, often headings or
opening parts of a manuscript, that appear in a
distinctive color, usually red
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Scenarist
sce
Use for a person or organization who is
the author of a motion picture
screenplay.
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Scientific advisor
sad
Use for a person or organization who
brings scientific, pedagogical, or historical
competence to the conception and realization on a
work, particularly in the case of audio-visual
items.
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Scribe
scr
Use for a person who is an amanuensis and
for a writer of manuscripts proper. For a person who
makes pen-facsimiles, use Facsimilist
[fac].
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Sculptor
scl
Use for a person or organization who
models or carves figures that are three-dimensional
representations.
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Second party
spy
Use for a person or organization who is
identified as the party of the second part. In the
case of transfer of right, this is the assignee,
transferee, licensee, grantee, etc. Multiple parties
can be named jointly as the second
party
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Secretary
sec
Use for a person or organization who is a
recorder, redactor, or other person responsible for
expressing the views of a
organization.>
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Set designer
std
Use for a person or organization who
translates the rough sketches of the art director
into actual architectural structures for a
theatrical presentation, entertainment, motion
picture, etc. Set designers draw the detailed guides
and specifications for building the
set.
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Signer
sgn
Use for a person whose signature appears
without a presentation or other statement indicative
of provenance. When there is a presentation
statement, use Inscriber [ins].
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Singer
sng
Use for a person or organization who uses
his/her/their voice with or without instrumental
accompaniment to produce music. A performance may or
may not include actual words.
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Sound designer
sds
Use for a person who produces and
reproduces the sound score (both live and recorded),
the installation of microphones, the setting of
sound levels, and the coordination of sources of
sound for a production.
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Speaker
spk
Use for a person who participates in a
program (often broadcast) and makes a formalized
contribution or presentation generally prepared in
advance.
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Sponsor
spn
Use for a person or organization that
issued a contract or under the auspices of which a
work has been written, printed, published,
etc.
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Stage manager
stm
Use for a person who is in charge of
everything that occurs on a performance stage, and
who acts as chief of all crews and assistant to a
director during rehearsals.
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Standards body
stn
Use for an organization responsible for
the development or enforcement of a
standard.
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Stereotyper
str
Use for a person or organization who
creates a new plate for printing by molding or
copying another printing surface.
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Storyteller
stl
Use for a person relaying a story with
creative and/or theatrical
interpretation.
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Supporting host
sht
Use for a person or organization that
supports (by allocating facilities, staff, or other
resources) a project, program, meeting, event, data
objects, material culture objects, or other entities
capable of support.
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Host, Supporting
Surveyor
srv
Use for a person or organization who does
measurements of tracts of land, etc. to determine
location, forms, and boundaries.
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Teacher
tch
Use for a person who, in the context of a
resource, gives instruction in an intellectual
subject or demonstrates while teaching physical
skills.
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Instructor
Technical director
tcd
Use for a person who is ultimately in
charge of scenery, props, lights and sound for a
production.
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Thesis advisor
ths
Use for a person under whose supervision a
degree candidate develops and presents a thesis,
mémoire, or text of a dissertation.
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Promoter
Transcriber
trc
Use for a person who prepares a
handwritten or typewritten copy from original
material, including from dictated or orally recorded
material. For makers of pen-facsimiles, use
Facsimilist [fac].
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Translator
trl
Use for a person or organization who
renders a text from one language into another, or
from an older form of a language into the modern
form.
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Type designer
tyd
Use for a person or organization who
designed the type face used in a particular item.
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Designer of type
Typographer
tyg
Use for a person or organization primarily
responsible for choice and arrangement of type used
in an item. If the typographer is also responsible
for other aspects of the graphic design of a book
(e.g., Book designer [bkd]), codes for both
functions may be needed.
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University place
uvp
Use for the name of a place where a university that is associated
with a resource is located, for example, a university where an academic
dissertation or thesis was presented.
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Videographer
vdg
Use for a person or organization in charge
of a video production, e.g. the video recording of a
stage production as opposed to a commercial motion
picture. The videographer may be the camera operator
or may supervise one or more camera operators. Do
not confuse with cinematographer.
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Vocalist
voc
Use for a person or organization who
principally exhibits singing skills in a musical or
dramatic presentation or entertainment.
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Witness
wit
Use for a person who verifies the
truthfulness of an event or action.
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Deponent
Eyewitness
Observer
Onlooker
Testifier
Wood-engraver
wde
Use for a person or organization who makes
prints by cutting the image in relief on the
end-grain of a wood block.
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Woodcutter
wdc
Use for a person or organization who makes
prints by cutting the image in relief on the plank
side of a wood block.
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Writer of accompanying material
wam
Use for a person or organization who
writes significant material which accompanies a
sound recording or other audiovisual
material.
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Actor
Adapter
Analyst
Animator
Annotator
Applicant
Architect
Arranger
Art copyist
Artist
Artistic director
Assignee
Associated name
Attributed name
Auctioneer
Author
Author in quotations or text
extracts
Author of afterword, colophon,
etc.
Author of dialog
Author of introduction, etc.
Author of screenplay, etc.
Bibliographic antecedent
Binder
Binding designer
Blurb writer
Book designer
Book producer
Bookjacket designer
Bookplate designer
Bookseller
Calligrapher
Cartographer
Censor
Choreographer
Cinematographer
Client
Collaborator
Collector
Collotyper
Colorist
Commentator
Commentator for written text
Compiler
Complainant
Complainant-appellant
Complainant-appellee
Composer
Compositor
Conceptor
Conductor
Conservator
Consultant
Consultant to a project
Contestant
Contestant-appellant
Contestant-appellee
Contestee
Contestee-appellant
Contestee-appellee
Contractor
Contributor
Copyright claimant
Copyright holder
Corrector
Correspondent
Costume designer
Cover designer
Creator
Curator of an exhibition
Dancer
Data contributor
Data manager
Dedicatee
Dedicator
Defendant
Defendant-appellant
Defendant-appellee
Degree grantor
Delineator
Depicted
Depositor
Designer
Director
Dissertant
Distribution place
Distributor
Donor
Draftsman
Dubious author
Editor
Electrician
Electrotyper
Engineer
Engraver
Etcher
Event place
Expert
Facsimilist
Field director
Film editor
First party
Forger
Former owner
Funder
Geographic information
specialist
Honoree
Host
Illuminator
Illustrator
Inscriber
Instrumentalist
Interviewee
Interviewer
Inventor
Laboratory
Laboratory director
Lead
Landscape architect
Lender
Libelant
Libelant-appellant
Libelant-appellee
Libelee
Libelee-appellant
Libelee-appellee
Librettist
Licensee
Licensor
Lighting designer
Lithographer
Lyricist
Manufacturer
Marbler
Markup editor
Metadata contact
Metal-engraver
Moderator
Monitor
Music copyist
Musical director
Musician
Narrator
Opponent
Organizer of meeting
Originator
Other
Owner
Papermaker
Patent applicant
Patent holder
Patron
Performer
Permitting agency
Photographer
Plaintiff
Plaintiff-appellant
Plaintiff-appellee
Platemaker
Printer
Printer of plates
Printmaker
Process contact
Producer
Production manager
Production personnel
Programmer
Project director
Proofreader
Publication place
Publisher
Publishing director
Puppeteer
Recipient
Recording engineer
Redactor
Renderer
Reporter
Repository
Research team head
Research team member
Researcher
Respondent
Respondent-appellant
Respondent-appellee
Responsible party
Restager
Reviewer
Rubricator
Scenarist
Scientific advisor
Scribe
Sculptor
Second party
Secretary
Set designer
Signer
Singer
Sound designer
Speaker
Sponsor
Stage manager
Standards body
Stereotyper
Storyteller
Supporting host
Surveyor
Teacher
Technical director
Thesis advisor
Transcriber
Translator
Type designer
Typographer
University place
Videographer
Vocalist
Witness
Wood-engraver
Woodcutter
Writer of accompanying material