Draft of resource creator role unifications in tDAR. Comments are welcome.

A Creator can be a Person or an Institution. We will be relating Resources, Creators, their roles, and a sequence number (used to distinguish primary authorship).

The unified role is what we'll end up with afterwards. The "appropriate for" column give us a way to filter out roles that aren't appropriate for the given relationship between a Creator and a Resource. For example, the Repository role may not be appropriate for Persons.

Another issue is that for Documents, do we want to be able to see things like "Principal Investigator" and "Field Director" in the Author / Editor / Contributor section?

The current design utilizes the type of the Creator (e.g., Person or Institution) to determine whether or not a role should be displayed.

Resource Creator Data Entry Locations

Role	Creator	Section?	Resource Type	Definition / Description
Author	Both	Authorship	Document	The writer of the document.
Contributor	Person	Contributors	All (including coding sheet and ontology)	An individual who contributes to, but is not the primary creator of an edited or multi-authored document, dataset, image, coding sheet, ontology, or project.
Editor	Both	Authorship	Document	The editor of the document.
Translator	Person	Authorship	Document	The translator of the document.
Field Director	Person	Contributors	All	The individual primarily responsible for implementing the fieldwork (reports to Project Director).Omit if same as Principal Investigator or Project Director
Lab Director	Person	Contributors	All	The individual primarily responsibility for managing the lab work.
Principal Investigator	Person	Contributors	All (including coding sheet and ontology)	The individual primarily responsible for the overall investigation.
Project Director	Person	Contributors	All (including coding sheet and ontology)	The individual responsible for implementing the project (reports to the Principal Investigator).Omit if same as PI.
Landowner	Both	Contributors	All
Sponsor	Both	Contributors	All (including coding sheet and ontology)	An agency, organization, or individual contributing financial or material support to the project or effort producing the information resource.
Permitting Agency	Institution	Contributors	All	An agency that issues a project permit.
Repository	Institution	Contributors	All	Institution at which physical collections related to the project or information resource are maintained. Physical or digital place of storage. K MST 1_27_11: Group decided to remove as creator role. However, group recognized need for category (or category like it) to be available for projects and for documents not associated with a project. KWK: I thought we agreed to keep it:
Contact	Both	Contributors	All (including coding sheet and ontology)	Individual or institution to contact with questions, concerns, or comments regarding the project or information resource.
Creator/Analyst	Both	Contributors	Dataset	Individual or institution that identified, measured, assayed, recorded, or otherwise compiled the dataset.
Image Creator	Both	Contributors	Image	Individual or institution that creates the image.(Examples: photographer, illustrator, cartographer, or a digital imager/artist)
Creator	Both	Contributors	Coding Sheet, Ontology, Ontology Mapping	Individual or institution responsible for creating the content of the information resource.
Prepared by	Institution	Contributors	All (including coding sheet and ontology)	Firm, agency, or other organization that conducted the project or conducted the investigation that produced the information resource.	F
Submitted to	Institution	Contributors	All (including coding sheet and ontology)	Agency, firm, or other organization for which the project was conducted or for which the investigation producing an information resource was conducted.

How To Read This Table

Creator relationship data-entry will be broken down into two separate sections: an "authorship" section, which is strictly for displaying resource authors; and the "contributors" section, which includes all of the persons/institutions that contribute to a resource in any other non-authorship role. Note that some resource types will contain both an "authorship" and "contributors" section.

All above does not include Ontology, Coding Sheet, or Ontology Mapping. Those information resources only have Creator and Contact fields in the Contributor section

Please see the creator relationship UI page for visual examples of these sections.

Creator Roles included search results, by Resource

This table defines which roles should be included in search results.

Page	Creator Roles	Notes
Coding Sheet	Creator
Dataset	Creator / Analyst
Document	Author Editor Translator
Image	Image Creator
Ontology	Creator
Project	Project Director Principle Investigator Sponsor

Mapping of old roles

Current Role	Mapped Role
ANALYST	Creator/Analyst
SERIES_EDITOR	deleted
COLLABORATOR	Contributor
REPOSITORY	Repository
PUBLISHER	not needed; in citation
LEAD	Prepared by
PERMITTER	Permitting Agency
OTHER	deleted

Developer Documentation

Resource Creator Roles reworking

Resource Creator Data Entry Locations

How To Read This Table

Creator Roles included search results, by Resource

Mapping of old roles