Abridger  [abr]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person, family, or organization contributing to a resource by shortening or condensing the original work but leaving the nature and content of the original work substantially unchanged.  For substantial modifications that result in the creation of a new work, see author.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Expression, Contributor

Actor  [act]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A performer contributing to an expression of a work by acting as a cast member or player in a musical or dramatic presentation, etc.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Contributor

Adapter  [adp]  Authorities & Vocabularies

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.

Addressee  [rcp]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person, family, or organization to whom the correspondence in a work is addressed.

UF    Recipient

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Other

Analyst  [anl]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person or organization that reviews, examines and interprets data or information in a specific area.

Animator  [anm]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person contributing to a moving image work or computer program by giving apparent movement to inanimate objects or drawings.  For the creator of the drawings that are animated, see artist.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Contributor

Annotator  [ann]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person who makes manuscript annotations on an item.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Item, Other

Appellant  [apl]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person or organization who appeals a lower court's decision.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Other

Appellee  [ape]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person or organization against whom an appeal is taken.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Other

Applicant  [app]  Authorities & Vocabularies

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]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person, family, or organization responsible for creating an architectural design, including a pictorial representation intended to show how a building, etc., will look when completed.  It also oversees the construction of structures.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Creator

Arranger  [arr]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person, family, or organization contributing to a musical work by rewriting the composition for a medium of performance different from that for which the work was originally intended, or modifying the work for the same medium of performance, etc., such that the musical substance of the original composition remains essentially unchanged.  For extensive modification that effectively results in the creation of a new musical work, see composer.

UF    Arranger of music

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Contributor

Arranger of music

USE  Arranger

Art copyist  [acp]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person (e.g., a painter or sculptor) who makes copies of works of visual art.

Art director  [adi]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person contributing to a motion picture or television production by overseeing the artists and craftspeople who build the sets.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Expression, Contributor

Artist  [art]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a work by conceiving, and implementing, an original graphic design, drawing, painting, etc.  For book illustrators, prefer Illustrator [ill].

UF    Graphic technician

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Creator

Artistic director  [ard]  Authorities & Vocabularies

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.

Assignee  [asg]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person or organization to whom a license for printing or publishing has been transferred.

Associated name  [asn]  Authorities & Vocabularies

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 relationship indicative of provenance.

Attributed name  [att]  Authorities & Vocabularies

An author, artist, etc., relating him/her to a resource 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]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person or organization in charge of the estimation and public auctioning of goods, particularly books, artistic works, etc.

Author  [aut]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a work that is primarily textual in content, regardless of media type (e.g., printed text, spoken word, electronic text, tactile text) or genre (e.g., poems, novels, screenplays, blogs).  Use also for persons, etc., creating a new work by paraphrasing, rewriting, or adapting works by another creator such that the modification has substantially changed the nature and content of the original or changed the medium of expression.

UF    Joint author

RDA Collections:  Collection, Work, Creator

Author in quotations or text extracts  [aqt]  Authorities & Vocabularies

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]  Authorities & Vocabularies

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]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person or organization responsible for the dialog or spoken commentary for a screenplay or sound recording.

Author of introduction, etc.  [aui]  Authorities & Vocabularies

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.

USE  Screenwriter

Autographer  [ato]  Authorities & Vocabularies

A person whose manuscript signature appears on an item.

RDA Collections:  Collection, Item, Other

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Relator Codes - Term Sequence