Controlled Vocabularies: Creator/Contributor Role

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Term Name: act
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#act
Label:  Actor 
Description:  A person or organization who principally exhibits acting skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

Term Name: adp
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#adp
Label:  Adaptor 
Description:  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.

Term Name: anl
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#anl
Label:  Analyst 
Description:  Use for a person or organization that reviews, examines and interprets data or information in a specific area.

Term Name: ann
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ann
Label:  Annotator 
Description:  A person who writes manuscript annotations on a printed item.

Term Name: arc
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#arc
Label:  Architect 
Description:  A person or organization who designs structures or oversees their construction.

Term Name: arr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#arr
Label:  Arranger 
Description:  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.

Term Name: arn
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#arn
Label:  Artisan 
Description:  A person or organization who conceives and usually also produces a craft work such as a ceramic pot, textile, piece of jewelry, or furniture.
Note:  Locally developed code and definition.

Term Name: art
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#art
Label:  Artist 
Description:  A person (e.g., a painter) or organization who conceives, and perhaps also implements, an original graphic design or work of art . . . . For book illustrators, prefer Illustrator [ill].

Term Name: asg
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#asg
Label:  Assignee 
Description:  A person or organization to whom a license for printing or publishing has been transferred.

Term Name: att
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#att
Label:  Attributed name 
Description:  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.

Term Name: aut
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#aut
Label:  Author 
Description:  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.

Term Name: aui
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#aui
Label:  Author of introduction, etc. 
Description:  Use for a person or organization responsible for an introduction, preface, foreword, or other critical introductory matter, but who is not the chief author.

Term Name: bnd
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#bnd
Label:  Binder 
Description:  Use for a person or organization responsible for the binding of printed or manuscript materials.

Term Name: ctg
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ctg
Label:  Cartographer 
Description:  A person or organization responsible for the creation of maps and other cartographic materials.

Term Name: ctn
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ctn
Label:  Cartoonist 
Description:  A person who specializes in drawing cartoons. (Much of this work is humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes.)

Term Name: cha
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#cha
Label:  Chair 
Description:  Thesis/Dissertation Committee chair (or major professor)
Note:  For ETDs.

Term Name: cng
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#cng
Label:  Cinematographer 
Description:  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.

Term Name: clb
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#clb
Label:  Collaborator 
Description:  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.

Term Name: col
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#col
Label:  Collector 
Description:  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.

Term Name: cmr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#cmr
Label:  Committee Member 
Description:  Use for a person who is a member of a Thesis/Dissertation advising committee.
Note:  For ETDs

Term Name: com
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#com
Label:  Compiler 
Description:  A person or organization who produces a work or publication by selecting and putting together material from the works of various persons or bodies.

Term Name: cmp
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#cmp
Label:  Composer 
Description:  Use for a person or organization who creates a musical work, usually a piece of music in manuscript or printed form.

Term Name: cnd
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#cnd
Label:  Conductor 
Description:  A person who directs a performing group (orchestra, chorus, opera, etc.)

Term Name: csl
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#csl
Label:  Consultant 
Description:  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.

Term Name: ctb
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ctb
Label:  Contributor 
Description:  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.

Term Name: cph
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#cph
Label:  Copyright holder 
Description:  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.

Term Name: crp
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#crp
Label:  Correspondent 
Description:  A person or organization who was either the writer or recipient of a letter or other communication.

Term Name: dgg
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#dgg
Label:  Degree grantor 
Description:  Use for the organization granting a degree for which the thesis or dissertation described was presented.

Term Name: dsr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#dsr
Label:  Designer 
Description:  A person or organization responsible for a design

Term Name: drt
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#drt
Label:  Director 
Description:  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.

Term Name: dis
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#dis
Label:  Dissertant 
Description:  Use for a person who presents a thesis for a university or higher-level educational degree.

Term Name: dst
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#dst
Label:  Distributor 
Description:  A person or organization that has exclusive or shared marketing rights for an item.

Term Name: dnr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#dnr
Label:  Donor 
Description:  A person or organization who is the donor of a book, manuscript, etc., to its present owner.

Term Name: drm
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#drm
Label:  Draftsman 
Description:  Use for the person who prepares technical or mechanical drawings.

Term Name: edt
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#edt
Label:  Editor 
Description:  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.

Term Name: egr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#egr
Label:  Engraver 
Description:  A person or organization who cuts letters, figures, etc. on a surface, such as a wooden or metal plate, for printing

Term Name: exm
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#exm
Label:  Examiner 

Term Name: exp
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#exp
Label:  Expert 
Description:  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.

Term Name: fmo
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#fmo
Label:  Former owner 
Description:  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]

Term Name: fnd
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#fnd
Label:  Funder 
Description:  A person or organization that furnished financial support for the production of the work.

Term Name: ill
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ill
Label:  Illustrator 
Description:  A person or organization who conceives, and perhaps also implements, a design or illustration, usually to accompany a written text.

Term Name: ive
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ive
Label:  Interviewee 
Description:  A person or organization who is interviewed at a consultation or meeting, usually by a reporter, pollster, or some other information gathering agent.

Term Name: ivr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ivr
Label:  Interviewer 
Description:  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.

Term Name: inv
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#inv
Label:  Inventor 
Description:  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.

Term Name: jrr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#jrr
Label:  Juror 

Term Name: lbt
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#lbt
Label:  Librettist 
Description:  A person or organization who is a writer of the text of an opera, oratorio, etc.

Term Name: mfr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#mfr
Label:  Manufacturer 
Description:  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.

Term Name: orm
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#orm
Label:  Organizer of meeting 
Description:  Use for a person or organization responsible for organizing a meeting for which an item is the report or proceedings.

Term Name: org
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#org
Label:  Originator 
Description:  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.

Term Name: oth
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#oth
Label:  Other 
Description:  Use for author or contributor term which have no equivalent in the MARC list or for terms which have not been assigned a code.
Note:  Locally developed code.

Term Name: own
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#own
Label:  Owner 
Description:  Use for a person or organization that currently owns an item or collection.

Term Name: ppm
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ppm
Label:  Papermaker 
Description:  Use for a person or organization responsible for the production of paper, usually from wood, cloth, or other fibrous material.

Term Name: prf
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#prf
Label:  Performer 
Description:  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.

Term Name: pht
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#pht
Label:  Photographer 
Description:  A person or organization responsible for taking photographs, whether they are used in their original form or as reproductions.

Term Name: prt
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#prt
Label:  Printer 
Description:  A person or organization who prints texts, whether from type or plates.

Term Name: pro
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#pro
Label:  Producer 
Description:  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.

Term Name: ptr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ptr
Label:  Proprietor 
Description:  This is a local designation for a person holding granted rights to oversee the day-to-day activities involved in publication or production.

Term Name: rce
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#rce
Label:  Recording engineer 
Description:  Use for a person or organization who supervises the technical aspects of a sound or video recording session.

Term Name: rfr
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#rfr
Label:  Referee 

Term Name: rpt
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#rpt
Label:  Reporter 
Description:  A person or organization who writes or presents reports of news or current events on air or in print

Term Name: rth
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#rth
Label:  Research team head 
Description:  Use for a person who directed or managed a research project.

Term Name: rtm
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#rtm
Label:  Research team member 
Description:  Use for a person who participated in a research project but whose role did not involve direction or management of it.

Term Name: res
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#res
Label:  Researcher 
Description:  Use for a person or organization responsible for performing research.

Term Name: ret
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ret
Label:  Retailer 
Description:  A person or organization or company or store that sells the item.

Term Name: scl
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#scl
Label:  Sculptor 
Description:  A person or organization who models or carves figures that are three-dimensional representations.

Term Name: spk
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#spk
Label:  Speaker 
Description:  A performer contributing to a resource by speaking words, such as a lecture, speech, etc.

Term Name: spn
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#spn
Label:  Sponsor 
Description:  Use for a person or organization that issued a contract or under the auspices of which a work has been written, printed, published, etc.

Term Name: srv
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#srv
Label:  Surveyor 
Description:  Use for a person or organization who does measurements of tracts of land, etc. to determine location, forms, and boundaries.

Term Name: ths
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#ths
Label:  Thesis advisor 
Description:  Use for a person under whose supervision a degree candidate develops and presents a thesis, memoire, or text of a dissertation.

Term Name: trc
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#trc
Label:  Transcriber 
Description:  A person who prepares a handwritten or typewritten copy from original material, including from dictated or orally recorded material.

Term Name: trl
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#trl
Label:  Translator 
Description:  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.

Term Name: tyg
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#tyg
Label:  Typographer 
Description:  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.

Term Name: vdg
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#vdg
Label:  Videographer 
Description:  A person 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

Term Name: wit
URI:  https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/agent-qualifiers/#wit
Label:  Witness 
Description:  Use for a person who verifies the truthfulness of an event or action.