Simplified Creator Element Help

Definition

The creator field identifies any persons, groups, or corporations associated with the item in some way , for example, authors, illustrators, binders, publishers, or conferences. This field is repeatable.

The Role designates the relationship of the Creator entity to the resource described in the record, for example, Illustrator, Editor, or Translator.

Form Elements

In the online templates, this element appears as below:

This form element allows the user to enter the name(s) and role(s) for the creator(s). Clicking the + sign adds another line to add additional creators.

An alternate form of this element appears below and excludes the option to include the role:

Best Practices

Enter names as LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial. Use the plus sign to the right of the field to add any additional authors of this material.

Optionally, add birth year in this format: Taylor, Laurie N., 1978-

The simplified form allows you to input the full name of an entity and to select a Role from a controlled list. Possible Roles are:

Actor Animator Architect Artist Author, primary Author, secondary Binder Calligrapher Cartographer Choreographer Cinematographer Compiler Composer Conductor Conference

Consultant Contributor Curator Degree Grantor Director Dissertant Designer Editor Engraver Engineer Illustrator Interviewee Interviewer Landscape Architect Lithographer

Manufacturer Musician Narrator Papermaker Performer Photographer Printmaker Printer Programmer Producer Publisher Puppeteer Recipient Researcher Research team head

Research team member Reviewer Scientific advisor Sculptor Signer Singer Speaker Sponsor Surveyor Stereotyper Thesis advisor Transcriber Translator Woodcutter Wood-engraver

Most items should include information about at least one creator. MODS is not restricted by the AACR2 "Rule of Three" in which only three authors are recorded; all persons, corporations, or conferences related to the item should be included in the metadata.

Display forms of names may match the Library of Congress Authority files, but are not required to do so.

Examples

Click on select roles in the list above to view well-constructed examples.

SobekCM / MODS Encoding

The creator information is encoded entirely in the MODS section of the SobekCM METS file.

<mods:name type="personal">
    <mods:namePart>Brown, B.F.</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="termsOfAddress">Dr.</mods:namePart>
    <mods:displayForm>B.F. Brown</mods:displayForm>
    <mods:affiliation>Chemistry Dept., American University</mods:affiliation>
    <mods:description>Chemistry Professor Emeritus</mods:description>
    <mods:role>
        <mods:roleTerm>Main Entity</mods:roleTerm>
        <mods:roleTerm type="text">Author</mods:roleTerm>
        <mods:roleTerm type="code" authority="marcrelator">aut</mods:roleTerm>
    </mods:role>
</mods:name>

<mods:name type="personal">
    <mods:namePart type="given">John Paul</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">1920-2002</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="termsOfAddress">Pope, II</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>

<mods:name type="conference">
    <mods:namePart>Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">1919-1920</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>

<mods:name type="corporate">
    <mods:namePart>United States | Court of Appeals (2nd Court)</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>

<mods:name type="personal" ID="NAM4">
    <mods:namePart>Wilson, Mary</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="given">Mary</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="family">Wilson</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="termsOfAddress">2nd</mods:namePart>
    <mods:displayForm>Mary 'Weels' Wilson</mods:displayForm>
    <mods:role>
        <mods:roleTerm type="text">illustrator</mods:roleTerm>
        <mods:roleTerm type="text">cartographer</mods:roleTerm>
    </mods:role>
</mods:name>

Metadata Mapping

MARC to MODS Mapping

The creator information maps from:

• 100, 700, 796 → name (personal, main entity)
• 110, 710, 797 → name (corporate, main entity)
• 111, 711 → name (conference, main entity)

MODS to MARC Mapping

Mapping from the MODS back to MARC is the reverse of the procedure listed above.

Sources

1. MODS User Guidelines Version 3, Detailed Description of MODS Elements
2. MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data
3. MARC Mapping to MODS version 3.4 : name
4. MODS to MARC 21 Mapping version 3.3 : name
5. MODS Top-level Element: name

Contributors

Nicola Hill, Mark Sullivan, and Laurie Taylor

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