Enum Class Relator

java.lang.Object
java.lang.Enum<Relator>
nl.siegmann.epublib.domain.Relator
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Comparable<Relator>, Constable
public enum Relator extends Enum<Relator>
A relator denotes which role a certain individual had in the creation/modification of the ebook. Examples are 'creator', 'blurb writer', etc. This is contains the complete Library of Concress relator list.
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  • Nested Class Summary

    Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class Enum

    Enum.EnumDesc<E>

  • Enum Constant Summary

    Enum Constants
    Enum Constant
    Description
    ACTOR
    Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits acting skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    ADAPTER
    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
    Use for a person or organization that reviews, examines and interprets data or information in a specific area.
    ANIMATOR
    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.
    ANNOTATOR
    Use for a person who writes manuscript annotations on a printed item.
    APPLICANT
    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).
    ARCHITECT
    Use for a person or organization who designs structures or oversees their construction.
    ARRANGER
    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
    Use for a person (e.g., a painter or sculptor) who makes copies of works of visual art.
    ARTIST
    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.
    ARTISTIC_DIRECTOR
    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.
    ASSIGNEE
    Use for a person or organization to whom a license for printing or publishing has been transferred.
    ASSOCIATED_NAME
    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
    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.
    AUCTIONEER
    Use for a person or organization in charge of the estimation and public auctioning of goods, particularly books, artistic works, etc.
    AUTHOR
    Use for a person or organization chiefly responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work, usually printed text.
    AUTHOR_IN_QUOTATIONS_OR_TEXT_EXTRACTS
    Use for a person or organization whose work is largely quoted or extracted in works to which he or she did not contribute directly.
    AUTHOR_OF_AFTERWORD_COLOPHON_ETC
    Use for a person or organization responsible for an afterword, postface, colophon, etc.
    AUTHOR_OF_DIALOG
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the dialog or spoken commentary for a screenplay or sound recording.
    AUTHOR_OF_INTRODUCTION_ETC
    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
    Use for a person or organization responsible for a motion picture screenplay, dialog, spoken commentary, etc.
    BIBLIOGRAPHIC_ANTECEDENT
    Use for a person or organization responsible for a work upon which the work represented by the catalog record is based.
    BINDER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the binding of printed or manuscript materials.
    BINDING_DESIGNER
    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.
    BLURB_WRITER
    Use for the named entity responsible for writing a commendation or testimonial for a work, which appears on or within the publication itself, frequently on the back or dust jacket of print publications or on advertising material for all media.
    BOOK_DESIGNER
    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.
    BOOK_PRODUCER
    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.
    BOOKJACKET_DESIGNER
    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.
    BOOKPLATE_DESIGNER
    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.
    BOOKSELLER
    Use for a person or organization who makes books and other bibliographic materials available for purchase.
    CALLIGRAPHER
    Use for a person or organization who writes in an artistic hand, usually as a copyist and or engrosser.
    CARTOGRAPHER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the creation of maps and other cartographic materials.
    CENSOR
    Use for a censor, bowdlerizer, expurgator, etc., official or private.
    CHOREOGRAPHER
    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
    Use for a person or organization who is in charge of the images captured for a motion picture film.
    CLIENT
    Use for a person or organization for whom another person or organization is acting.
    COLLABORATOR
    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
    Use for a person or organization who has brought together material from various sources that has been arranged, described, and cataloged as a collection.
    COLLOTYPER
    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.
    COLORIST
    Use for the named entity responsible for applying color to drawings, prints, photographs, maps, moving images, etc.
    COMMENTATOR
    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
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the commentary or explanatory notes about a text.
    COMPILER
    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
    Use for the party who applies to the courts for redress, usually in an equity proceeding.
    COMPLAINANT_APPELLANT
    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
    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
    Use for a person or organization who creates a musical work, usually a piece of music in manuscript or printed form.
    COMPOSITOR
    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.
    CONCEPTOR
    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
    Use for a person who directs a performing group (orchestra, chorus, opera, etc.) in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    CONSERVATOR
    Use for the named entity responsible for documenting, preserving, or treating printed or manuscript material, works of art, artifacts, or other media.
    CONSULTANT
    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
    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
    Use for the party who opposes, resists, or disputes, in a court of law, a claim, decision, result, etc.
    CONTESTANT_APPELLANT
    Use for a contestant who takes an appeal from one court of law or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.
    CONTESTANT_APPELLEE
    Use for a contestant against whom an appeal is taken from one court of law or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.
    CONTESTEE
    Use for the party defending a claim, decision, result, etc.
    CONTESTEE_APPELLANT
    Use for a contestee who takes an appeal from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.
    CONTESTEE_APPELLEE
    Use for a contestee against whom an appeal is taken from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.
    CONTRACTOR
    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
    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.
    COPYRIGHT_CLAIMANT
    Use for a person or organization listed as a copyright owner at the time of registration.
    COPYRIGHT_HOLDER
    Use for a person or organization to whom copy and legal rights have been granted or transferred for the intellectual content of a work.
    CORRECTOR
    Use for a person or organization who is a corrector of manuscripts, such as the scriptorium official who corrected the work of a scribe.
    CORRESPONDENT
    Use for a person or organization who was either the writer or recipient of a letter or other communication.
    COSTUME_DESIGNER
    Use for a person or organization who designs or makes costumes, fixes hair, etc., for a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    COVER_DESIGNER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the graphic design of a book cover, album cover, slipcase, box, container, etc.
    CREATOR
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work.
    CURATOR_OF_AN_EXHIBITION
    Use for a person or organization responsible for conceiving and organizing an exhibition.
    DANCER
    Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits dancing skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    DATA_CONTRIBUTOR
    Use for a person or organization that submits data for inclusion in a database or other collection of data.
    DATA_MANAGER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for managing databases or other data sources.
    DEDICATEE
    Use for a person or organization to whom a book, manuscript, etc., is dedicated (not the recipient of a gift).
    DEDICATOR
    Use for the author of a dedication, which may be a formal statement or in epistolary or verse form.
    DEFENDANT
    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
    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
    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
    Use for the organization granting a degree for which the thesis or dissertation described was presented.
    DELINEATOR
    Use for a person or organization executing technical drawings from others' designs.
    DEPICTED
    Use for an entity depicted or portrayed in a work, particularly in a work of art.
    DEPOSITOR
    Use for a person or organization placing material in the physical custody of a library or repository without transferring the legal title.
    DESIGNER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the design if more specific codes (e.g., [bkd], [tyd]) are not desired.
    DIRECTOR
    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
    Use for a person who presents a thesis for a university or higher-level educational degree.
    DISTRIBUTION_PLACE
    Use for the name of a place from which a resource, e.g., a serial, is distributed.
    DISTRIBUTOR
    Use for a person or organization that has exclusive or shared marketing rights for an item.
    DONOR
    Use for a person or organization who is the donor of a book, manuscript, etc., to its present owner.
    DRAFTSMAN
    Use for a person or organization who prepares artistic or technical drawings.
    DUBIOUS_AUTHOR
    Use for a person or organization to which authorship has been dubiously or incorrectly ascribed.
    EDITOR
    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
    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.
    ELECTROTYPER
    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
    Use for a person or organization that is responsible for technical planning and design, particularly with construction.
    ENGRAVER
    Use for a person or organization who cuts letters, figures, etc.
    ETCHER
    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.
    EVENT_PLACE
    Use for the name of the place where an event such as a conference or a concert took place.
    EXPERT
    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.
    FACSIMILIST
    Use for a person or organization that executed the facsimile.
    FIELD_DIRECTOR
    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).
    FILM_EDITOR
    Use for a person or organization who is an editor of a motion picture film.
    FIRST_PARTY
    Use for a person or organization who is identified as the only party or the party of the first part.
    FORGER
    Use for a person or organization who makes or imitates something of value or importance, especially with the intent to defraud.
    FORMER_OWNER
    Use for a person or organization who owned an item at any time in the past.
    FUNDER
    Use for a person or organization that furnished financial support for the production of the work.
    GEOGRAPHIC_INFORMATION_SPECIALIST
    Use for a person responsible for geographic information system (GIS) development and integration with global positioning system data.
    HONOREE
    Use for a person or organization in memory or honor of whom a book, manuscript, etc.
    HOST
    Use for a person who is invited or regularly leads a program (often broadcast) that includes other guests, performers, etc.
    ILLUMINATOR
    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
    Use for a person or organization who conceives, and perhaps also implements, a design or illustration, usually to accompany a written text.
    INSCRIBER
    Use for a person who signs a presentation statement.
    INSTRUMENTALIST
    Use for a person or organization who principally plays an instrument in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    INTERVIEWEE
    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
    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
    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.
    LABORATORY
    Use for an institution that provides scientific analyses of material samples.
    LABORATORY_DIRECTOR
    Use for a person or organization that manages or supervises work done in a controlled setting or environment.
    LANDSCAPE_ARCHITECT
    Use for a person or organization whose work involves coordinating the arrangement of existing and proposed land features and structures.
    LEAD
    Use to indicate that a person or organization takes primary responsibility for a particular activity or endeavor.
    LENDER
    Use for a person or organization permitting the temporary use of a book, manuscript, etc., such as for photocopying or microfilming.
    LIBELANT
    Use for the party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case.
    LIBELANT_APPELLANT
    Use for a libelant who takes an appeal from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.
    LIBELANT_APPELLEE
    Use for a libelant against whom an appeal is taken from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.
    LIBELEE
    Use for a party against whom a libel has been filed in an ecclesiastical court or admiralty.
    LIBELEE_APPELLANT
    Use for a libelee who takes an appeal from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.
    LIBELEE_APPELLEE
    Use for a libelee against whom an appeal is taken from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.
    LIBRETTIST
    Use for a person or organization who is a writer of the text of an opera, oratorio, etc.
    LICENSEE
    Use for a person or organization who is an original recipient of the right to print or publish.
    LICENSOR
    Use for person or organization who is a signer of the license, imprimatur, etc.
    LIGHTING_DESIGNER
    Use for a person or organization who designs the lighting scheme for a theatrical presentation, entertainment, motion picture, etc.
    LITHOGRAPHER
    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
    Use for a person or organization who is a writer of the text of a song.
    MANUFACTURER
    Use for a person or organization that makes an artifactual work (an object made or modified by one or more persons).
    MARBLER
    Use for the named entity responsible for marbling paper, cloth, leather, etc.
    MARKUP_EDITOR
    Use for a person or organization performing the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup of metadata, text, etc.
    METADATA_CONTACT
    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
    Use for a person or organization responsible for decorations, illustrations, letters, etc.
    MODERATOR
    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
    Use for a person or organization that supervises compliance with the contract and is responsible for the report and controls its distribution.
    MUSIC_COPYIST
    Use for a person who transcribes or copies musical notation
    MUSICAL_DIRECTOR
    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.
    MUSICIAN
    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
    Use for a person who is a speaker relating the particulars of an act, occurrence, or course of events.
    OPPONENT
    Use for a person or organization responsible for opposing a thesis or dissertation.
    ORGANIZER_OF_MEETING
    Use for a person or organization responsible for organizing a meeting for which an item is the report or proceedings.
    ORIGINATOR
    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.
    OTHER
    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
    Use for a person or organization that currently owns an item or collection.
    PAPERMAKER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the production of paper, usually from wood, cloth, or other fibrous material.
    PATENT_APPLICANT
    Use for a person or organization that applied for a patent.
    PATENT_HOLDER
    Use for a person or organization that was granted the patent referred to by the item.
    PATRON
    Use for a person or organization responsible for commissioning a work.
    PERFORMER
    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.
    PERMITTING_AGENCY
    Use for an authority (usually a government agency) that issues permits under which work is accomplished.
    PHOTOGRAPHER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for taking photographs, whether they are used in their original form or as reproductions.
    PLAINTIFF
    Use for the party who complains or sues in court in a personal action, usually in a legal proceeding.
    PLAINTIFF_APPELLANT
    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
    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
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the production of plates, usually for the production of printed images and/or text.
    PRINTER
    Use for a person or organization who prints texts, whether from type or plates.
    PRINTER_OF_PLATES
    Use for a person or organization who prints illustrations from plates.
    PRINTMAKER
    Use for a person or organization who makes a relief, intaglio, or planographic printing surface.
    PROCESS_CONTACT
    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
    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.
    PRODUCTION_MANAGER
    Use for a person responsible for all technical and business matters in a production.
    PRODUCTION_PERSONNEL
    Use for a person or organization associated with the production (props, lighting, special effects, etc.) of a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    PROGRAMMER
    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
    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.
    PROOFREADER
    Use for a person who corrects printed matter.
    PUBLICATION_PLACE
    Use for the name of the place where a resource is published.
    PUBLISHER
    Use for a person or organization that makes printed matter, often text, but also printed music, artwork, etc.
    PUBLISHING_DIRECTOR
    Use for a person or organization who presides over the elaboration of a collective work to ensure its coherence or continuity.
    PUPPETEER
    Use for a person or organization who manipulates, controls, or directs puppets or marionettes in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    RECIPIENT
    Use for a person or organization to whom correspondence is addressed.
    RECORDING_ENGINEER
    Use for a person or organization who supervises the technical aspects of a sound or video recording session.
    REDACTOR
    Use for a person or organization who writes or develops the framework for an item without being intellectually responsible for its content.
    RENDERER
    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
    Use for a person or organization who writes or presents reports of news or current events on air or in print.
    REPOSITORY
    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.
    RESEARCH_TEAM_HEAD
    Use for a person who directed or managed a research project.
    RESEARCH_TEAM_MEMBER
    Use for a person who participated in a research project but whose role did not involve direction or management of it.
    RESEARCHER
    Use for a person or organization responsible for performing research.
    RESPONDENT
    Use for the party who makes an answer to the courts pursuant to an application for redress, usually in an equity proceeding.
    RESPONDENT_APPELLANT
    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
    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
    Use for a person or organization legally responsible for the content of the published material.
    RESTAGER
    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
    Use for a person or organization responsible for the review of a book, motion picture, performance, etc.
    RUBRICATOR
    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
    Use for a person or organization who is the author of a motion picture screenplay.
    SCIENTIFIC_ADVISOR
    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
    Use for a person who is an amanuensis and for a writer of manuscripts proper.
    SCULPTOR
    Use for a person or organization who models or carves figures that are three-dimensional representations.
    SECOND_PARTY
    Use for a person or organization who is identified as the party of the second part.
    SECRETARY
    Use for a person or organization who is a recorder, redactor, or other person responsible for expressing the views of a organization.
    SET_DESIGNER
    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.
    SIGNER
    Use for a person whose signature appears without a presentation or other statement indicative of provenance.
    SINGER
    Use for a person or organization who uses his/her/their voice with or without instrumental accompaniment to produce music.
    SOUND_DESIGNER
    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.
    SPEAKER
    Use for a person who participates in a program (often broadcast) and makes a formalized contribution or presentation generally prepared in advance.
    SPONSOR
    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
    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.
    STANDARDS_BODY
    Use for an organization responsible for the development or enforcement of a standard.
    STEREOTYPER
    Use for a person or organization who creates a new plate for printing by molding or copying another printing surface.
    STORYTELLER
    Use for a person relaying a story with creative and/or theatrical interpretation.
    SUPPORTING_HOST
    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.
    SURVEYOR
    Use for a person or organization who does measurements of tracts of land, etc.
    TEACHER
    Use for a person who, in the context of a resource, gives instruction in an intellectual subject or demonstrates while teaching physical skills.
    TECHNICAL_DIRECTOR
    Use for a person who is ultimately in charge of scenery, props, lights and sound for a production.
    THESIS_ADVISOR
    Use for a person under whose supervision a degree candidate develops and presents a thesis, mémoire, or text of a dissertation.
    TRANSCRIBER
    Use for a person who prepares a handwritten or typewritten copy from original material, including from dictated or orally recorded material.
    TRANSLATOR
    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
    Use for a person or organization who designed the type face used in a particular item.
    TYPOGRAPHER
    Use for a person or organization primarily responsible for choice and arrangement of type used in an item.
    UNIVERSITY_PLACE
    Use for the name of a place where a university that is associated with a resource is located, for example, a university where an academic dissertation or thesis was presented.
    VIDEOGRAPHER
    Use for a person or organization in charge of a video production, e.g.
    VOCALIST
    Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits singing skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
    WITNESS
    Use for a person who verifies the truthfulness of an event or action.
    WOOD_ENGRAVER
    Use for a person or organization who makes prints by cutting the image in relief on the end-grain of a wood block.
    WOODCUTTER
    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
    Use for a person or organization who writes significant material which accompanies a sound recording or other audiovisual material.

  • Field Summary

    Fields
    Modifier and Type
    Field
    Description
    private final String
    code
     
    private final String
    name
     

  • Constructor Summary

    Constructors
    Modifier
    Constructor
    Description
    private
    Relator(String code, String name)
     

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    static Relator
    byCode(String code)
     
    String
    getCode()
     
    String
    getName()
     
    static Relator
    valueOf(String name)
    Returns the enum constant of this class with the specified name.
    static Relator[]
    values()
    Returns an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared.

    Methods inherited from class Enum

    clone, compareTo, describeConstable, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf

    Methods inherited from class Object

    getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

  • Enum Constant Details

    • ACTOR

      public static final Relator ACTOR
      Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits acting skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • ADAPTER

      public static final Relator ADAPTER
      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

      public static final Relator ANALYST
      Use for a person or organization that reviews, examines and interprets data or information in a specific area.

    • ANIMATOR

      public static final Relator ANIMATOR
      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

      public static final Relator ANNOTATOR
      Use for a person who writes manuscript annotations on a printed item.

    • APPLICANT

      public static final Relator APPLICANT
      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).

    • ARCHITECT

      public static final Relator ARCHITECT
      Use for a person or organization who designs structures or oversees their construction.

    • ARRANGER

      public static final Relator ARRANGER
      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

      public static final Relator ART_COPYIST
      Use for a person (e.g., a painter or sculptor) who makes copies of works of visual art.

    • ARTIST

      public static final Relator ARTIST
      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].

    • ARTISTIC_DIRECTOR

      public static final Relator ARTISTIC_DIRECTOR
      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.

    • ASSIGNEE

      public static final Relator ASSIGNEE
      Use for a person or organization to whom a license for printing or publishing has been transferred.

    • ASSOCIATED_NAME

      public static final Relator ASSOCIATED_NAME
      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

      public static final Relator ATTRIBUTED_NAME
      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.

    • AUCTIONEER

      public static final Relator AUCTIONEER
      Use for a person or organization in charge of the estimation and public auctioning of goods, particularly books, artistic works, etc.

    • AUTHOR

      public static final Relator AUTHOR
      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.

    • AUTHOR_IN_QUOTATIONS_OR_TEXT_EXTRACTS

      public static final Relator AUTHOR_IN_QUOTATIONS_OR_TEXT_EXTRACTS
      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

      public static final Relator AUTHOR_OF_AFTERWORD_COLOPHON_ETC
      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

      public static final Relator AUTHOR_OF_DIALOG
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the dialog or spoken commentary for a screenplay or sound recording.

    • AUTHOR_OF_INTRODUCTION_ETC

      public static final Relator AUTHOR_OF_INTRODUCTION_ETC
      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

      public static final Relator AUTHOR_OF_SCREENPLAY_ETC
      Use for a person or organization responsible for a motion picture screenplay, dialog, spoken commentary, etc.

    • BIBLIOGRAPHIC_ANTECEDENT

      public static final Relator BIBLIOGRAPHIC_ANTECEDENT
      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

      public static final Relator BINDER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the binding of printed or manuscript materials.

    • BINDING_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator BINDING_DESIGNER
      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.

    • BLURB_WRITER

      public static final Relator BLURB_WRITER
      Use for the named entity responsible for writing a commendation or testimonial for a work, which appears on or within the publication itself, frequently on the back or dust jacket of print publications or on advertising material for all media.

    • BOOK_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator BOOK_DESIGNER
      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.

    • BOOK_PRODUCER

      public static final Relator BOOK_PRODUCER
      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.

    • BOOKJACKET_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator BOOKJACKET_DESIGNER
      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.

    • BOOKPLATE_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator BOOKPLATE_DESIGNER
      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.

    • BOOKSELLER

      public static final Relator BOOKSELLER
      Use for a person or organization who makes books and other bibliographic materials available for purchase. Interest in the materials is primarily lucrative.

    • CALLIGRAPHER

      public static final Relator CALLIGRAPHER
      Use for a person or organization who writes in an artistic hand, usually as a copyist and or engrosser.

    • CARTOGRAPHER

      public static final Relator CARTOGRAPHER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the creation of maps and other cartographic materials.

    • CENSOR

      public static final Relator CENSOR
      Use for a censor, bowdlerizer, expurgator, etc., official or private.

    • CHOREOGRAPHER

      public static final Relator CHOREOGRAPHER
      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

      public static final Relator CINEMATOGRAPHER
      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.

    • CLIENT

      public static final Relator CLIENT
      Use for a person or organization for whom another person or organization is acting.

    • COLLABORATOR

      public static final Relator COLLABORATOR
      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

      public static final Relator COLLECTOR
      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

      public static final Relator COLLOTYPER
      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.

    • COLORIST

      public static final Relator COLORIST
      Use for the named entity responsible for applying color to drawings, prints, photographs, maps, moving images, etc.

    • COMMENTATOR

      public static final Relator COMMENTATOR
      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

      public static final Relator COMMENTATOR_FOR_WRITTEN_TEXT
      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

      public static final Relator COMPILER
      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

      public static final Relator COMPLAINANT
      Use for the party who applies to the courts for redress, usually in an equity proceeding.

    • COMPLAINANT_APPELLANT

      public static final Relator COMPLAINANT_APPELLANT
      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

      public static final Relator COMPLAINANT_APPELLEE
      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

      public static final Relator COMPOSER
      Use for a person or organization who creates a musical work, usually a piece of music in manuscript or printed form.

    • COMPOSITOR

      public static final Relator COMPOSITOR
      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.

    • CONCEPTOR

      public static final Relator CONCEPTOR
      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

      public static final Relator CONDUCTOR
      Use for a person who directs a performing group (orchestra, chorus, opera, etc.) in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • CONSERVATOR

      public static final Relator CONSERVATOR
      Use for the named entity responsible for documenting, preserving, or treating printed or manuscript material, works of art, artifacts, or other media.

    • CONSULTANT

      public static final Relator CONSULTANT
      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

      public static final Relator CONSULTANT_TO_A_PROJECT
      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

      public static final Relator CONTESTANT
      Use for the party who opposes, resists, or disputes, in a court of law, a claim, decision, result, etc.

    • CONTESTANT_APPELLANT

      public static final Relator CONTESTANT_APPELLANT
      Use for a contestant who takes an appeal from one court of law or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.

    • CONTESTANT_APPELLEE

      public static final Relator CONTESTANT_APPELLEE
      Use for a contestant against whom an appeal is taken from one court of law or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.

    • CONTESTEE

      public static final Relator CONTESTEE
      Use for the party defending a claim, decision, result, etc. being opposed, resisted, or disputed in a court of law.

    • CONTESTEE_APPELLANT

      public static final Relator CONTESTEE_APPELLANT
      Use for a contestee who takes an appeal from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.

    • CONTESTEE_APPELLEE

      public static final Relator CONTESTEE_APPELLEE
      Use for a contestee against whom an appeal is taken from one court or jurisdiction to another to reverse the judgment.

    • CONTRACTOR

      public static final Relator CONTRACTOR
      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

      public static final Relator CONTRIBUTOR
      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.

    • CORRECTOR

      public static final Relator CORRECTOR
      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

      public static final Relator CORRESPONDENT
      Use for a person or organization who was either the writer or recipient of a letter or other communication.

    • COSTUME_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator COSTUME_DESIGNER
      Use for a person or organization who designs or makes costumes, fixes hair, etc., for a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • COVER_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator COVER_DESIGNER
      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.

    • CREATOR

      public static final Relator CREATOR
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work.

    • CURATOR_OF_AN_EXHIBITION

      public static final Relator CURATOR_OF_AN_EXHIBITION
      Use for a person or organization responsible for conceiving and organizing an exhibition.

    • DANCER

      public static final Relator DANCER
      Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits dancing skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • DATA_CONTRIBUTOR

      public static final Relator DATA_CONTRIBUTOR
      Use for a person or organization that submits data for inclusion in a database or other collection of data.

    • DATA_MANAGER

      public static final Relator DATA_MANAGER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for managing databases or other data sources.

    • DEDICATEE

      public static final Relator DEDICATEE
      Use for a person or organization to whom a book, manuscript, etc., is dedicated (not the recipient of a gift).

    • DEDICATOR

      public static final Relator DEDICATOR
      Use for the author of a dedication, which may be a formal statement or in epistolary or verse form.

    • DEFENDANT

      public static final Relator DEFENDANT
      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

      public static final Relator DEFENDANT_APPELLANT
      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

      public static final Relator DEFENDANT_APPELLEE
      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

      public static final Relator DEGREE_GRANTOR
      Use for the organization granting a degree for which the thesis or dissertation described was presented.

    • DELINEATOR

      public static final Relator DELINEATOR
      Use for a person or organization executing technical drawings from others' designs.

    • DEPICTED

      public static final Relator DEPICTED
      Use for an entity depicted or portrayed in a work, particularly in a work of art.

    • DEPOSITOR

      public static final Relator DEPOSITOR
      Use for a person or organization placing material in the physical custody of a library or repository without transferring the legal title.

    • DESIGNER

      public static final Relator DESIGNER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the design if more specific codes (e.g., [bkd], [tyd]) are not desired.

    • DIRECTOR

      public static final Relator DIRECTOR
      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

      public static final Relator DISSERTANT
      Use for a person who presents a thesis for a university or higher-level educational degree.

    • DISTRIBUTION_PLACE

      public static final Relator DISTRIBUTION_PLACE
      Use for the name of a place from which a resource, e.g., a serial, is distributed.

    • DISTRIBUTOR

      public static final Relator DISTRIBUTOR
      Use for a person or organization that has exclusive or shared marketing rights for an item.

    • DONOR

      public static final Relator DONOR
      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

      public static final Relator DRAFTSMAN
      Use for a person or organization who prepares artistic or technical drawings.

    • DUBIOUS_AUTHOR

      public static final Relator DUBIOUS_AUTHOR
      Use for a person or organization to which authorship has been dubiously or incorrectly ascribed.

    • EDITOR

      public static final Relator EDITOR
      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

      public static final Relator ELECTRICIAN
      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.

    • ELECTROTYPER

      public static final Relator ELECTROTYPER
      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

      public static final Relator ENGINEER
      Use for a person or organization that is responsible for technical planning and design, particularly with construction.

    • ENGRAVER

      public static final Relator ENGRAVER
      Use for a person or organization who cuts letters, figures, etc. on a surface, such as a wooden or metal plate, for printing.

    • ETCHER

      public static final Relator ETCHER
      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.

    • EVENT_PLACE

      public static final Relator EVENT_PLACE
      Use for the name of the place where an event such as a conference or a concert took place.

    • EXPERT

      public static final Relator EXPERT
      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.

    • FACSIMILIST

      public static final Relator FACSIMILIST
      Use for a person or organization that executed the facsimile.

    • FIELD_DIRECTOR

      public static final Relator FIELD_DIRECTOR
      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).

    • FILM_EDITOR

      public static final Relator FILM_EDITOR
      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).

    • FIRST_PARTY

      public static final Relator FIRST_PARTY
      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

      public static final Relator FORGER
      Use for a person or organization who makes or imitates something of value or importance, especially with the intent to defraud.

    • FORMER_OWNER

      public static final Relator FORMER_OWNER
      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

      public static final Relator FUNDER
      Use for a person or organization that furnished financial support for the production of the work.

    • GEOGRAPHIC_INFORMATION_SPECIALIST

      public static final Relator GEOGRAPHIC_INFORMATION_SPECIALIST
      Use for a person responsible for geographic information system (GIS) development and integration with global positioning system data.

    • HONOREE

      public static final Relator HONOREE
      Use for a person or organization in memory or honor of whom a book, manuscript, etc. is donated.

    • HOST

      public static final Relator HOST
      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

      public static final Relator ILLUMINATOR
      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

      public static final Relator ILLUSTRATOR
      Use for a person or organization who conceives, and perhaps also implements, a design or illustration, usually to accompany a written text.

    • INSCRIBER

      public static final Relator INSCRIBER
      Use for a person who signs a presentation statement.

    • INSTRUMENTALIST

      public static final Relator INSTRUMENTALIST
      Use for a person or organization who principally plays an instrument in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • INTERVIEWEE

      public static final Relator INTERVIEWEE
      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

      public static final Relator INTERVIEWER
      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

      public static final Relator INVENTOR
      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.

    • LABORATORY

      public static final Relator LABORATORY
      Use for an institution that provides scientific analyses of material samples.

    • LABORATORY_DIRECTOR

      public static final Relator LABORATORY_DIRECTOR
      Use for a person or organization that manages or supervises work done in a controlled setting or environment.

    • LANDSCAPE_ARCHITECT

      public static final Relator LANDSCAPE_ARCHITECT
      Use for a person or organization whose work involves coordinating the arrangement of existing and proposed land features and structures.

    • LEAD

      public static final Relator LEAD
      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.

    • LENDER

      public static final Relator LENDER
      Use for a person or organization permitting the temporary use of a book, manuscript, etc., such as for photocopying or microfilming.

    • LIBELANT

      public static final Relator LIBELANT
      Use for the party who files a libel in an ecclesiastical or admiralty case.

    • LIBELANT_APPELLANT

      public static final Relator LIBELANT_APPELLANT
      Use for a libelant who takes an appeal from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.

    • LIBELANT_APPELLEE

      public static final Relator LIBELANT_APPELLEE
      Use for a libelant against whom an appeal is taken from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.

    • LIBELEE

      public static final Relator LIBELEE
      Use for a party against whom a libel has been filed in an ecclesiastical court or admiralty.

    • LIBELEE_APPELLANT

      public static final Relator LIBELEE_APPELLANT
      Use for a libelee who takes an appeal from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.

    • LIBELEE_APPELLEE

      public static final Relator LIBELEE_APPELLEE
      Use for a libelee against whom an appeal is taken from one ecclesiastical court or admiralty to another to reverse the judgment.

    • LIBRETTIST

      public static final Relator LIBRETTIST
      Use for a person or organization who is a writer of the text of an opera, oratorio, etc.

    • LICENSEE

      public static final Relator LICENSEE
      Use for a person or organization who is an original recipient of the right to print or publish.

    • LICENSOR

      public static final Relator LICENSOR
      Use for person or organization who is a signer of the license, imprimatur, etc.

    • LIGHTING_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator LIGHTING_DESIGNER
      Use for a person or organization who designs the lighting scheme for a theatrical presentation, entertainment, motion picture, etc.

    • LITHOGRAPHER

      public static final Relator LITHOGRAPHER
      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

      public static final Relator LYRICIST
      Use for a person or organization who is a writer of the text of a song.

    • MANUFACTURER

      public static final Relator MANUFACTURER
      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.

    • MARBLER

      public static final Relator MARBLER
      Use for the named entity responsible for marbling paper, cloth, leather, etc. used in construction of a resource.

    • MARKUP_EDITOR

      public static final Relator MARKUP_EDITOR
      Use for a person or organization performing the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup of metadata, text, etc.

    • METADATA_CONTACT

      public static final Relator METADATA_CONTACT
      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

      public static final Relator METAL_ENGRAVER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for decorations, illustrations, letters, etc. cut on a metal surface for printing or decoration.

    • MODERATOR

      public static final Relator MODERATOR
      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

      public static final Relator MONITOR
      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.

    • MUSIC_COPYIST

      public static final Relator MUSIC_COPYIST
      Use for a person who transcribes or copies musical notation

    • MUSICAL_DIRECTOR

      public static final Relator MUSICAL_DIRECTOR
      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.

    • MUSICIAN

      public static final Relator MUSICIAN
      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

      public static final Relator NARRATOR
      Use for a person who is a speaker relating the particulars of an act, occurrence, or course of events.

    • OPPONENT

      public static final Relator OPPONENT
      Use for a person or organization responsible for opposing a thesis or dissertation.

    • ORGANIZER_OF_MEETING

      public static final Relator ORGANIZER_OF_MEETING
      Use for a person or organization responsible for organizing a meeting for which an item is the report or proceedings.

    • ORIGINATOR

      public static final Relator ORIGINATOR
      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

      public static final Relator OTHER
      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

      public static final Relator OWNER
      Use for a person or organization that currently owns an item or collection.

    • PAPERMAKER

      public static final Relator PAPERMAKER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the production of paper, usually from wood, cloth, or other fibrous material.

    • PATENT_APPLICANT

      public static final Relator PATENT_APPLICANT
      Use for a person or organization that applied for a patent.

    • PATENT_HOLDER

      public static final Relator PATENT_HOLDER
      Use for a person or organization that was granted the patent referred to by the item.

    • PATRON

      public static final Relator PATRON
      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

      public static final Relator PERFORMER
      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.

    • PERMITTING_AGENCY

      public static final Relator PERMITTING_AGENCY
      Use for an authority (usually a government agency) that issues permits under which work is accomplished.

    • PHOTOGRAPHER

      public static final Relator PHOTOGRAPHER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for taking photographs, whether they are used in their original form or as reproductions.

    • PLAINTIFF

      public static final Relator PLAINTIFF
      Use for the party who complains or sues in court in a personal action, usually in a legal proceeding.

    • PLAINTIFF_APPELLANT

      public static final Relator PLAINTIFF_APPELLANT
      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

      public static final Relator PLAINTIFF_APPELLEE
      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

      public static final Relator PLATEMAKER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the production of plates, usually for the production of printed images and/or text.

    • PRINTER

      public static final Relator PRINTER
      Use for a person or organization who prints texts, whether from type or plates.

    • PRINTER_OF_PLATES

      public static final Relator PRINTER_OF_PLATES
      Use for a person or organization who prints illustrations from plates.

    • PRINTMAKER

      public static final Relator PRINTMAKER
      Use for a person or organization who makes a relief, intaglio, or planographic printing surface.

    • PROCESS_CONTACT

      public static final Relator PROCESS_CONTACT
      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

      public static final Relator PRODUCER
      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.

    • PRODUCTION_MANAGER

      public static final Relator PRODUCTION_MANAGER
      Use for a person responsible for all technical and business matters in a production.

    • PRODUCTION_PERSONNEL

      public static final Relator PRODUCTION_PERSONNEL
      Use for a person or organization associated with the production (props, lighting, special effects, etc.) of a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • PROGRAMMER

      public static final Relator PROGRAMMER
      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

      public static final Relator PROJECT_DIRECTOR
      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.

    • PROOFREADER

      public static final Relator PROOFREADER
      Use for a person who corrects printed matter. For manuscripts, use Corrector [crr].

    • PUBLICATION_PLACE

      public static final Relator PUBLICATION_PLACE
      Use for the name of the place where a resource is published.

    • PUBLISHER

      public static final Relator PUBLISHER
      Use for a person or organization that makes printed matter, often text, but also printed music, artwork, etc. available to the public.

    • PUBLISHING_DIRECTOR

      public static final Relator PUBLISHING_DIRECTOR
      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

      public static final Relator PUPPETEER
      Use for a person or organization who manipulates, controls, or directs puppets or marionettes in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • RECIPIENT

      public static final Relator RECIPIENT
      Use for a person or organization to whom correspondence is addressed.

    • RECORDING_ENGINEER

      public static final Relator RECORDING_ENGINEER
      Use for a person or organization who supervises the technical aspects of a sound or video recording session.

    • REDACTOR

      public static final Relator REDACTOR
      Use for a person or organization who writes or develops the framework for an item without being intellectually responsible for its content.

    • RENDERER

      public static final Relator RENDERER
      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

      public static final Relator REPORTER
      Use for a person or organization who writes or presents reports of news or current events on air or in print.

    • REPOSITORY

      public static final Relator REPOSITORY
      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.

    • RESEARCH_TEAM_HEAD

      public static final Relator RESEARCH_TEAM_HEAD
      Use for a person who directed or managed a research project.

    • RESEARCH_TEAM_MEMBER

      public static final Relator RESEARCH_TEAM_MEMBER
      Use for a person who participated in a research project but whose role did not involve direction or management of it.

    • RESEARCHER

      public static final Relator RESEARCHER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for performing research.

    • RESPONDENT

      public static final Relator RESPONDENT
      Use for the party who makes an answer to the courts pursuant to an application for redress, usually in an equity proceeding.

    • RESPONDENT_APPELLANT

      public static final Relator RESPONDENT_APPELLANT
      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

      public static final Relator RESPONDENT_APPELLEE
      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

      public static final Relator RESPONSIBLE_PARTY
      Use for a person or organization legally responsible for the content of the published material.

    • RESTAGER

      public static final Relator RESTAGER
      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

      public static final Relator REVIEWER
      Use for a person or organization responsible for the review of a book, motion picture, performance, etc.

    • RUBRICATOR

      public static final Relator RUBRICATOR
      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

      public static final Relator SCENARIST
      Use for a person or organization who is the author of a motion picture screenplay.

    • SCIENTIFIC_ADVISOR

      public static final Relator SCIENTIFIC_ADVISOR
      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

      public static final Relator SCRIBE
      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

      public static final Relator SCULPTOR
      Use for a person or organization who models or carves figures that are three-dimensional representations.

    • SECOND_PARTY

      public static final Relator SECOND_PARTY
      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

      public static final Relator SECRETARY
      Use for a person or organization who is a recorder, redactor, or other person responsible for expressing the views of a organization.

    • SET_DESIGNER

      public static final Relator SET_DESIGNER
      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

      public static final Relator SIGNER
      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

      public static final Relator SINGER
      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

      public static final Relator SOUND_DESIGNER
      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.

    • SPEAKER

      public static final Relator SPEAKER
      Use for a person who participates in a program (often broadcast) and makes a formalized contribution or presentation generally prepared in advance.

    • STAGE_MANAGER

      public static final Relator STAGE_MANAGER
      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.

    • STANDARDS_BODY

      public static final Relator STANDARDS_BODY
      Use for an organization responsible for the development or enforcement of a standard.

    • STEREOTYPER

      public static final Relator STEREOTYPER
      Use for a person or organization who creates a new plate for printing by molding or copying another printing surface.

    • STORYTELLER

      public static final Relator STORYTELLER
      Use for a person relaying a story with creative and/or theatrical interpretation.

    • SUPPORTING_HOST

      public static final Relator SUPPORTING_HOST
      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.

    • SURVEYOR

      public static final Relator SURVEYOR
      Use for a person or organization who does measurements of tracts of land, etc. to determine location, forms, and boundaries.

    • TEACHER

      public static final Relator TEACHER
      Use for a person who, in the context of a resource, gives instruction in an intellectual subject or demonstrates while teaching physical skills.

    • TECHNICAL_DIRECTOR

      public static final Relator TECHNICAL_DIRECTOR
      Use for a person who is ultimately in charge of scenery, props, lights and sound for a production.

    • THESIS_ADVISOR

      public static final Relator THESIS_ADVISOR
      Use for a person under whose supervision a degree candidate develops and presents a thesis, mémoire, or text of a dissertation.

    • TRANSCRIBER

      public static final Relator TRANSCRIBER
      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

      public static final Relator TRANSLATOR
      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

      public static final Relator TYPE_DESIGNER
      Use for a person or organization who designed the type face used in a particular item.

    • TYPOGRAPHER

      public static final Relator TYPOGRAPHER
      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.

    • UNIVERSITY_PLACE

      public static final Relator UNIVERSITY_PLACE
      Use for the name of a place where a university that is associated with a resource is located, for example, a university where an academic dissertation or thesis was presented.

    • VIDEOGRAPHER

      public static final Relator VIDEOGRAPHER
      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

      public static final Relator VOCALIST
      Use for a person or organization who principally exhibits singing skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.

    • WITNESS

      public static final Relator WITNESS
      Use for a person who verifies the truthfulness of an event or action.

    • WOOD_ENGRAVER

      public static final Relator WOOD_ENGRAVER
      Use for a person or organization who makes prints by cutting the image in relief on the end-grain of a wood block.

    • WOODCUTTER

      public static final Relator WOODCUTTER
      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

      public static final Relator WRITER_OF_ACCOMPANYING_MATERIAL
      Use for a person or organization who writes significant material which accompanies a sound recording or other audiovisual material.

  • Field Details

    • code

      private final String code

    • name

      private final String name

  • Constructor Details

  • Method Details

    • values

      public static Relator[] values()
      Returns an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared.
      Returns:
      an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared

    • valueOf

      public static Relator valueOf(String name)
      Returns the enum constant of this class with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this class. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)
      Parameters:
      name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.
      Returns:
      the enum constant with the specified name
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if this enum class has no constant with the specified name
      NullPointerException - if the argument is null

    • getCode

      public String getCode()

    • getName

      public String getName()

    • byCode

      public static Relator byCode(String code)