Arrangement of the List
In the Term Sequence, the relator terms are listed alphabetically
by the term. An alphabetic listing by code is provided in a
separate Code Sequence list.
An entry for a term to which a code has been assigned includes the term
followed by the code in brackets, both in boldface. In many cases, a
definition in italics follows the relator term. Following the
definition, any variants of the term are listed on successive lines,
with the first variant preceded by the symbol
UF
("used for"). For example:
- Censor [cns]
- Use for a censor, bowdlerizer,
expurgator, etc., official or private.
- UF
- Bowdlerizer
- Expurgator
The UF terms from each entry also appear in their alphabetic position in
the list as references, but
not in boldface. These
references do not give the code. The entry under the term referred to must
be consulted to determine the code. For example:
- Bowdlerizer
-
- USE
- Censor
- Expurgator
-
- USE
- Censor
Entries may also include a note in [brackets] explaining a change in the use
of codes. For example:
- Graphic technician
-
- USE
- Artist
- [Coded [grt] (Graphic technician) before
Mar. 1988]
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- Actor [act]
- Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits
acting skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Annotator [ann]
- Use for a person who writes manuscript
annotations on a printed item.
- 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).
- Appraiser
-
- USE
- Expert
- Architect [arc]
- Use for a person or organization who designs
structures or oversees their construction.
- 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.
- Art copyist [acp]
- Use for a person (e.g., a painter or sculptor) who makes copies of works of visual art.
- 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].
- UF
- Graphic technician
- Assignee [asg]
- Use for a person or organization to whom a
license for printing or publishing has been
transferred.
- 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.
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- 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.
- Author of dialog [aud]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for the
dialog or spoken commentary for a screenplay or sound
recording.
- 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.
- Author of screenplay, etc. [aus]
- Use for a person or organization
responsible for a motion picture screenplay, dialog, spoken commentary,
etc.
- 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.
- Binder [bnd]
- Use for a person or organization
responsible for the binding of printed or manuscript
materials.
- 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.
- UF
- Designer of binding
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- Bowdlerizer
-
- USE
- Censor
- Calligrapher [cll]
- Use for a person or organization who writes in an artistic
hand, usually as a copyist and or engrosser.
- Cartographer [ctg]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for the creation
of maps and other cartographic materials.
- Censor [cns]
- Use for a censor, bowdlerizer, expurgator,
etc., official
or private.
- UF
- 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.
- 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.
- Claimant
-
- USE
- Copyright claimant
- Client [cli]
- Use for a person or organization for whom
another person
or organization is acting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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].
- 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.
- Complainant [cpl]
- Use for the party who applies to the courts
for redress,
usually in an equity proceeding.
- 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.
- 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.
- Composer [cmp]
- Use for a person or organization who creates a musical work,
usually a
piece of music in manuscript or printed
form.
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- Conductor [cnd]
- Use for a person who directs a performing
group
(orchestra, chorus, opera, etc.) in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Contestant [cos]
- Use for the party who opposes, resists, or
disputes, in a
court of law, a claim, decision, result,
etc.
- Contestant-appellant [cot]
- Use for a contestant who takes an appeal
from one court of law or jurisdiction to another to reverse the
judgment.
- 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.
- Contestee [cts]
- Use for the party defending a claim,
decision, result,
etc. being opposed, resisted, or disputed in a court of
law.
- Contestee-appellant [ctt]
- Use for a contestee who takes an appeal from
one court or
jurisdiction to another to reverse the
judgment.
- Contestee-appellee [cte]
- Use for a contestee against whom an appeal
is taken from
one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse the
judgment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Copier
-
- USE
- Forger
- 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.
- 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.
- 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].
- Correspondent [crp]
- Use for a person or organization who was
either the
writer or recipient of a letter or other
communication.
- 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.
- Counterfeiter
-
- USE
- Forger
- 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.
- UF
- Designer of cover
- Creator [cre]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for the
intellectual or artistic content of a work.
- Curator of an exhibition [cur]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for
conceiving and
organizing an exhibition.
- Dancer [dnc]
- Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits
dancing skills
in a musical or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
- Dedicatee [dte]
- Use for a person or organization to whom a
book,
manuscript, etc., is dedicated (not the recipient of a
gift).
- Dedicator [dto]
- Use for the author of a dedication, which
may be a formal
statement or in epistolary or verse
form.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Degree grantor [dgg]
- Use for the organization granting a degree for which
the thesis or dissertation described was presented.
- Delineator [dln]
- Use for a person or organization executing
technical
drawings from others' designs.
- Depicted [dpc]
- Use for an entity depicted or portrayed
in a work, particularly in a work of art.
- Deponent
-
- USE
- Witness
- Depositor [dpt]
- Use for a person or organization placing
material in the
physical custody of a library or repository without transferring
the legal
title.
- Designer [dsr]
- Use for a person or organization responsible
for the design
if more specific codes (e.g., [bkd], [tyd]) are not
desired.
- Designer of binding
-
- USE
- Binding designer
- Designer of book
-
- USE
- Book designer
- Designer of bookjacket
-
- USE
- Bookjacket designer
- Designer of bookplate
-
- USE
- Bookplate designer
- Designer of cover
-
- USE
- Cover designer
- Designer of type
-
- USE
- Type designer
- 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.
- Dissertant [dis]
- Use for a person who presents a thesis for a
university
or higher-level educational degree.
- Distributor [dst]
- Use for a person or organization that has
exclusive or shared
marketing rights for an item.
- 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].
- Draftsman [drm]
- Use for a person or organization who prepares artistic or technical
drawings.
- UF
- Technical draftsman
- Dubious author [dub]
- Use for a person or organization to which
authorship
has been dubiously or incorrectly
ascribed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Engineer [eng]
- Use for a person or organization that is
responsible for
technical planning and design, particularly with
construction.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- UF
- Appraiser
- Eyewitness
-
- USE
- Witness
- Expurgator
-
- USE
- Censor
- Facsimilist [fac]
- Use for a person or organization that executed the
facsimile.
- UF
- Copier
- 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).
- UF
- 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
- Forger [frg]
- Use for a person or organization who makes or imitates
something of value or importance, especially with the intent
to defraud.
- UF
- 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]
- Funder [fnd]
- Use for a person or organization that furnished
financial
support for the production of the work.
- Graphic technician
-
- USE
- Artist (Note: Relator term "Graphic technician" (coded [grt]) used before
March 1988 only.)
- Honoree [hnr]
- Use for a person or organization in memory or honor of
whom a book,
manuscript, etc. is donated.
- UF
- 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).
- 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.
- Illustrator [ill]
- Use for a person or organization who conceives, and
perhaps also
implements, a design or illustration, usually to accompany a
written
text.
- Imprimatur
-
- USE
- Licensor
- Inscriber [ins]
- Use for a person who signs a presentation
statement.
- Instructor
-
- USE
- Teacher
- Instrumentalist [itr]
- Use for a person or organization who principally plays an
instrument in a
musical or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Investigator
-
- USE
- Originator
- Joint author
-
- USE
- Author
- Landscape architect [lsa]
- Use for a person or organization whose work involves
coordinating the arrangement of existing and proposed land features and structures.
- Lender [len]
- Use for a person or organization permitting
the temporary use of a book, manuscript, etc., such as for photocopying or
microfilming.
- Libelant [lil]
- Use for the party who files a libel in an
ecclesiastical or admiralty case.
- Libelant-appellant [lit]
- Use for a libelant who takes an appeal from
one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the
judgment.
- 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.
- Libelee [lel]
- Use for a party against whom a libel has
been filed in an ecclesiastical court or admiralty.
- Libelee-appellant [let]
- Use for a libelee who takes an appeal from
one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the
judgment.
- 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.
- Librettist [lbt]
- Use for a person or organization who is a writer of the text of an opera,
oratorio,
etc.
- Licensee [lse]
- Use for a person or organization who is an original recipient of the right
to print or publish.
- Licensor [lso]
- Use for person or organization who is a signer of the license, imprimatur,
etc.
- UF
- Imprimatur
- Lighting designer [lgd]
- Use for a person or organization who designs the lighting
scheme for a theatrical presentation, entertainment, motion picture, etc.
- 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.
- Lyricist [lyr]
- Use for a person or organization who is the a writer of the text of
a song.
- 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.
- Markup editor [mrk]
- Use for a person or organization performing
the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup of metadata, text,
etc.
- Memorial
-
- USE
- Honoree
- 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).
- Metal-engraver [mte]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for decorations, illustrations,
letters, etc. cut on a metal surface for printing or decoration.
- 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.
- 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.
- Motion picture editor
-
- USE
- Film editor
- Music copyist [mcp
- Use for a person who transcribes or copies musical notation.
- 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.
- Narrator [nrt]
- Use for a person who is a speaker relating the
particulars of an
act, occurrence, or course of events.
- Observer
-
- USE
- Witness
- Onlooker
-
- USE
- Witness
- Opponent [opn]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for
opposing a thesis or dissertation.
- Organizer of meeting [orm]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for
organizing a meeting for which an item is the report or
proceedings.
- 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.
- UF
- 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.
- Owner [own]
- Use for a person or organization
that currently owns an item or collection.
- Papermaker [ppm]
- Use for a person or organization responsible
for the production of paper, usually from wood, cloth, or other
fibrous material.
- Patent applicant [pta]
- Use for a person or organization that applied for a
patent.
- Patent holder [pth]
- Use for a person or organization that was granted the patent referred to by
the item.
- UF
- Patentee
- Patent inventor
-
- USE
- Inventor
- Patentee
-
- USE
- Patent holder
- 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.
- 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.
- Performer of research
-
- USE
- Researcher
- Photographer [pht]
- Use for a person or organization
responsible for taking
photographs, whether they are used in their original form or as
reproductions.
- Plaintiff [ptf]
- Use for the party who complains or sues in
court in a
personal action, usually in a legal
proceeding.
- 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.
- 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.
- Platemaker [plt]
- Use for a person or organization
responsible for the production of plates, usually for the
production of printed images and/or text.
- Plates, Printer of
-
- USE
- Printer of Plates
- Principal investigator
-
- USE
- Originator
- Printer [prt]
- Use for a person or organization who
prints texts,
whether from type or plates.
- Printer of plates [pop]
- Use for a person or organization who
prints
illustrations from plates.
- UF
- Plates, Printer of
- Printmaker [prm]
- Use for a person or organization who
makes a relief,
intaglio, or planographic printing surface.
- 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.
- 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.
- Producer of book
-
- USE
- Book producer
- 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.
- 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.
- Promoter
-
- USE
- Thesis advisor
- Proofreader [pfr]
- Use for a person who corrects printed
matter. For
manuscripts, use Corrector [crr].
- Publisher [pbl]
- Use for a person or organization
that makes printed matter, often text, but also printed music,
artwork, etc. available to the public.
- 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.
- Puppeteer [ppt]
-
Use for a person or organization who manipulates, controls, or
directs puppets or marionettes in a musical or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
- Recipient [rcp]
- Use for a person or organization to whom correspondence is
addressed.
- Recording engineer [rce]
- Use for a person or organization who supervises the
technical aspects of
a sound or video recording session.
- Redactor [red]
- Use for a person or organization who writes or develops the
framework for
an item without being intellectually responsible for its
content.
- 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.
- Reporter [rpt]
- Use for a person or organization who writes or presents reports
of
news or current events on air or in print.
- Research team head [rth]
- Use for a person who directed or
managed a research project.
- 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.
- Researcher [res]
-
Use for a person or organization responsible for
performing research.
- UF
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Responsible party [rpy]
- Use for a person or organization
legally responsible for the content of the published
material.
- 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.
- Reviewer [rev]
- Use for a person or organization
responsible for the
review of a book, motion picture, performance,
etc.
- 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
- Scenarist [sce]
- Use for a person or organization who is the author of a motion picture
screenplay.
- 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.
- 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].
- Sculptor [scl]
- Use for a person or organization who models or carves figures that are
three-dimensional representations.
- 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
- Secretary [sec]
-
Use for a person or organization who is a recorder, redactor, or other
person responsible for expressing the views of a organization.
- 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.
- 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].
- 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.
- Speaker [spk]
- Use for a person who participates in a
program (often
broadcast) and makes a formalized contribution or presentation
generally
prepared in advance.
- 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.
- Standards body [stn]
- Use for an organization responsible for the
development or enforcement of a standard.
- Stereotyper [str]
- Use for a person or organization who creates a new plate for
printing by molding or copying another printing
surface.
- Storyteller [stl]
- Use for a person relaying a story with
creative and/or theatrical interpretation.
- Supposed name
-
- USE
- Attributed name
- Surveyor [srv]
- Use for a person or organization who does
measurements of
tracts of land, etc. to determine location, forms, and
boundaries.
- 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.
- UF
- Instructor
- Technical draftsman
-
- USE
- Draftsman
- Testifier
-
- USE
- Witness
- Thesis advisor [ths]
- Use for a person under whose supervision a
degree
candidate develops and presents a thesis, mémoire, or text
of a
dissertation.
- UF 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].
- 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.
- Type designer [tyd]
- Use for a person or organization who designed the type
face used in a
particular item.
- UF
- Designer of type
- Typesetter
-
- USE
- Compositor
- 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.
- 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.
- Vocalist [voc]
- Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits
singing skills
in a musical or dramatic presentation or
entertainment.
- Witness [wit]
- Use for a person who verifies the
truthfulness of an event or action.
- UF
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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