Term Sequence: S (Relator Codes)
Scenarist [sce] Authorities & Vocabularies
A person or organization who is the author of a motion picture screenplay, generally the person who wrote the scenarios for a motion picture during the silent era.
Scientific advisor [sad] Authorities & Vocabularies
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.
Screenwriter [aus] Authorities & Vocabularies
An author of a screenplay, script, or scene.
UF Author of screenplay, etc.
RDA Collections: Collection, Work, Creator
Scribe [scr] Authorities & Vocabularies
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] Authorities & Vocabularies
An artist responsible for creating a three-dimensional work by modeling, carving, or similar technique.
RDA Collections: Collection, Work, Creator
Second party [spy] Authorities & Vocabularies
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] Authorities & Vocabularies
A person or organization who is a recorder, redactor, or other person responsible for expressing the views of an organization.
Seller [sll] Authorities & Vocabularies
A former owner of an item who sold that item to another owner.
RDA Collections: Collection, Item, Owner
Set designer [std] Authorities & Vocabularies
A person 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.
Setting [stg] Authorities & Vocabularies
An entity in which the activity or plot of a work takes place, e.g. a geographic place, a time period, a building, an event.
Signer [sgn] Authorities & Vocabularies
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] Authorities & Vocabularies
A performer contributing to a resource by using his/her/their voice, with or without instrumental accompaniment, to produce music. A singer's performance may or may not include actual words.
UF Vocalist
RDA Collections: Collection, Expression, Contributor
Sound designer [sds] Authorities & Vocabularies
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.
Speaker [spk] Authorities & Vocabularies
A performer contributing to a resource by speaking words, such as a lecture, speech, etc.
RDA Collections: Collection, Expression, Contributor
Sponsor [spn] Authorities & Vocabularies
A person, family, or organization sponsoring some aspect of the resource, e.g., funding research, sponsoring an event.
UF Sponsoring body
RDA Collections: Collection, Work, Other
Sponsoring body
USE Sponsor
Stage director [sgd] Authorities & Vocabularies
A person or organization contributing to a stage resource through the overall management and supervision of a performance.
RDA Collections: Collection, Expression, Contributor
Stage manager [stm] Authorities & Vocabularies
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.
Standards body [stn] Authorities & Vocabularies
An organization responsible for the development or enforcement of a standard.
Stereotyper [str] Authorities & Vocabularies
A person or organization who creates a new plate for printing by molding or copying another printing surface.
Storyteller [stl] Authorities & Vocabularies
A performer contributing to a resource by relaying a creator's original story with dramatic or theatrical interpretation.
RDA Collections: Collection, Expression, Contributor
Supporting host [sht] Authorities & Vocabularies
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.
UF Host, Supporting
Supposed name
USE Attributed name
Surveyor [srv] Authorities & Vocabularies
A person, family, or organization contributing to a cartographic resource by providing measurements or dimensional relationships for the geographic area represented.
RDA Collections: Collection, Expression, Contributor
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