Arrangement of the List
In the Term Sequence, the relator terms are listed alphabetically.
A 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 follows the relator term. Any variants of the term are also
listed. The first type of variant term is precceded 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 are included in
the list as references, but are not in boldface. 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
USEArtist
[Coded [grt] (Graphic technician) before Mar. 1988]
Code List -- Term Sequence
- 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.
- Analyst[anl]
- Use for a person or organization that reviews, examines and
interprets data or information in a specific area. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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
- 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. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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
- Chief electrician
-
USE
Electrician
- 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.
- 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.
UFDesigner 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.
- Data contributor[dtc]
- Use for a person or organization that submits data for inclusion in
a database or other collection of data. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- Data manager[dtm]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for managing databases or other data sources.
[use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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.
- 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.
[use only after April 18, 2009]
UF
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.
- 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.
UFCopier
- 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).
[use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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.
- Geographic information specialist[gis]
- Use for a person responsible for geographic information system (GIS)
development and integration with global positioning system data.
[use only after April 18, 2009]
UF
Geospatial information specialist
- Geospatial information specialist
USE
Geographic information specialist
- Graphic technician
USE
Artist
[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).
- Host, Supporting
USE
Supporting host
- House electrician
USE
Electrician
- 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
- Lab director
USE
Laboratory director
- Laboratory[lbr]
- Use for an institution that provides scientific analyses of material
samples. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- Laboratory director[ldr]
- Use for a person or organization that manages or supervises work
done in a controlled setting or environment. [use only after April 18, 2009]
UFLab director
- Landscape architect[lsa]
- Use for a person or organization whose work involves
coordinating the arrangement of existing and proposed land features and structures.
- 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. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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.
UFImprimatur
- 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.
- Master electrician
USEElectrician
- Memorial
USEHonoree
- 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
USEFilm editor
- Music copyist[mcp]
- Use for a person who transcribes or copies musical notation
- 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.
[use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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
USEWitness
- Onlooker
USEWitness
- 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.
- 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.
UFPatentee
- Patent inventor
USEInventor
- Patentee
USEPatent holder
- Patron[pat]
- Use for a person or organization responsible for
commissioning a work. Usually a patron uses his or her
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
USEResearcher
- Permitting agency[pma]
- Use for an authority (usually a government agency) that issues permits under
which work is accomplished. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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
USEPrinter of Plates
- Principal investigator
USEOriginator
- 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.
UFPlates, 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
USEBook producer
- Production manager[pmn]
- Use for a person responsible for all technical and business matters in a production.
[use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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.
- 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. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- Promoter
USEThesis 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.
- 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. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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.
UFPerformer 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.
- 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.
[use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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.
- 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. [use only after April 18, 2009]
- 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.
- 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.
[use only after April 18, 2009]
UFHost, Supporting
- Supposed name
USEAttributed 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.
UFInstructor
- Technical director[tcd]
- Use for a person who is ultimately in charge of scenery, props, lights
and sound for a production.[use only after April 18, 2009]
- Technical draftsman
USEDraftsman
- Testifier
USEWitness
- Thesis advisor[ths]
- Use for a person under whose supervision a
degree candidate develops and presents a thesis,
mémoire, or text of a dissertation.
UFPromoter
- 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.
UFDesigner of type
- Typesetter
USECompositor
- 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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