Roles

== Roles Scheme, Describing the role of a person in an Atom Entry ==

This Scheme is designed to provide for markup of Credits within the Transmission metadata systen.

We conform to the draft suggestions set out here:

from http://ietfreport.isoc.org/all-ids/draft-snell-atompub-author-extensions...

Thus we obtain markup that looks like this:

And, accordingly, we obtain possible Roles from the list held by the US Library of Congress, here:

http://www.loc.gov/marc/sourcecode/relator/relatorlist.html

We note that the list is, in terms of the roles required by Credits, incomplete. We note that the Library of Congress invites 'Requests for additions to the code or term lists'. Our suggestion is that this page is used as a place to update Roles in accordance with a./ the needs of Transmission and b./ the approach of the LoC. It is then suggested the LoC is contacted periodically as neccessary and asked to update the liast.

Following are relevant roles currently outlined in the LoC scheme:

* '''Actor [act]''' - Use for a person who principally exhibits acting skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
* '''Artist [art]''' - Use for a person (e.g., a painter) 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]
* '''Director [drt]''' - Use for a person who is responsible for the general management of a work or who supervises the production of a performance for stage, screen, or sound recording.
* '''Distributor [dst]''' - Use for an agent or agency that has exclusive or shared marketing rights for an item.
* '''Film editor [flm]''' - Use for 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).
* '''Funder [fnd]''' - Use for the person or agency that furnished financial support for the production of the work.
* '''Metadata contact [mdc]''' - Use for the person or organization primarily responsible for metadata markup of a work.
* '''Musician [mus]''' - Use for the person who performs music or contributes to the musical content of a work
* '''Narrator [nrt]''' - Use for the speaker who relates the particulars of an act, occurrence, or course of events.
* '''Performer [prf]''' - Use for a person who exhibits musical or acting skills i a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment, if specific codes for those functions ([act], [dnc], [itr], [voc], etc.) are not used. [prf] is used for a person whose principal skill is not known or specified.
* '''Producer [pro]''' - Use for a person who is responsible for the making of a motion picture, including business aspects, management of the productions, and the commercial success of the work.
* '''Researcher [res]''' - Use for the person or corporate body responsible for performing research towards a work.
* '''Transcriber [trc]''' - Use for a person who prepares a handwritten or typewritten copy from original material, including from dictated or orally recorded material.
* '''Translator [trl]''' - In addition we propose the following obvious additions:
* '''Photographer [pht]''' - Use for a person responsible for all aspects of handling image within a film
* '''Cinematographer [cmt]''' - Use for a person responsible for recording image in a film.

Other extensions may be added here.