Responsibility Taxonomy

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Introduction

The following are responsibility codes used in <respStmt>s across the site. We take our inspiration and many of our codes from the Library of Congress’s MARC Code List for Relators. For more information, see Encode a <teiHeader>.

Library of Congress Responsibility Relator Taxonomy

This taxonomy is taken from the Library of Congress’ MARC Code List for Relators. We provide the Library of Congress’ definition as well as MoEML’s definition and recommendation for usage. For MoEML’s internal responsibility relator taxonomy, see Map of Early Modern London Local Responsibility Taxonomy.

Analyst (anl)

Library of Congress: A person or organization that reviews, examines, and interprets data or information in a specific area.
MoEML uses the term analyst to designate a contributor responsible for fact-checking, verification of citations, quotations, etc.

Author of Afterword, Colophon, etc. (aft)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for an afterword, postface, colophon, etc. but who is not the chief author of a work.
MoEML uses the term author of afterword to designate a contributor who writes a summation or some kind of critical material that follows a text.

Annotator (ann)

Library of Congress: A person who writes manuscript annotations on an item.
MoEML uses the term annotator to designate a contributor who adds annotations or explanations to a primary source text transcribed in the MoEML Library.

Artist (art)

Library of Congress: A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a work by conceiving and implementing an original graphic design, drawing, painting, etc.
MoEML uses the term artist to designate someone who produces original artwork or design components that are integrated into the project site or into graphical documents in the project.

Author of Introduction (aui)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for an introduction, preface, foreword, or other critical introductory matter, but who is not the chief author.
MoEML uses the term author of introduction to designate a contributor who writes all or part of the critical, textual, or encoding introduction(s) to a work transcribed in the MoEML Library.

Author (aut)

Library of Congress: 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.
MoEML uses the term author to designate a contributor who is wholly or partly responsible for the original content of either a born-digital document, such as an encyclopedia entry, or a primary source document, such as a MoEML Library text.

Bookseller (bsl)

Library of Congress: A person or organization who makes books and other bibliographic materials available for purchase. Interest in the materials is primarily lucrative.
MoEML uses the term bookseller to designate an early modern publisher whose name appear in the transcribed title page. In early modern printing practice, the roles of printer, bookseller, and publisher might coincide in one person, or be performed by different people.

Conceptor (ccp)

Library of Congress: 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.
MoEML uses the term conceptor to designate any person or organization responsible for envisioning the design, structure, or general function of a page or project within MoEML. We use this term to give credit to early contributors whose work has been substantially revised and replaced, or contributors who provided input or inspiration on some aspect of the design, structure, and/or implementation of a project within MoEML. Acceptable names for this role are conceptor or originator.

Commentator (cmm)

Library of Congress: A person or organization who provides interpretation, analysis, or a discussion of the subject matter on a recording, motion picture, or other audiovisual medium.

Compiler (com)

Library of Congress: A person or organization who produces a work or publication by selecting and putting together material from the works of various persons or bodies.
MoEML designates the term compiler to a contributor who selects and organizes materials from the MoEML -ographies, Library, Stow, and/or Encyclopedia, in order to create reading lists, pathways through our documentation, or mini-anthologies.

Creator (cre)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work.

Consultant (csl)

Library of Congress: 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.
MoEML designates the term consultant to any contributor who offers an expert opinion, shares research, or points us towards information. Acceptable names for this role are consultant, expert, or advisor.

Consultant to a project (csp)

Library of Congress: A person or organization relevant to a resource, whose engagement is 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.
MoEML uses the term consultant to a project to designate a contributor who has provided broad intellectual, technical, or organizational advice on one of MoEML’s component projects.

Contributor (ctb)

Library of Congress: A person, family or organization responsible for making contributions to the resource. This includes those whose work has been contributed to a larger work, such as an anthology, serial publication, or another compilation of individual works.
MoEML uses the term contributor to designate someone whose work is included (by permission) within a larger work. We use the term for a secondary author of a primary source, such as a later reviser, or for someone who contributes a paragraph or short section to a born-digital article.

Cartographer (ctg)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for the creation of maps and other cartographic materials.
MoEML uses the term cartographer to designate the creator of a historical map.

Commentator for written text (cwt)

Library of Congress: 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].
MoEML uses the term commentator to designate a contributor who provides commentary or explanatory notes on a primary source. In the normal MoEML workflow, our transcribers, encoders, and research assistants add some editorial notes to the transcriptions, although they will also sometimes leave notes for a future critical editor. In general, however, the Commentator will be a scholar who annotates one of our encoded transcriptions of a primary source.

Conservator (con)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for documenting, preserving, or treating printed or manuscript material, works of art, artifacts, or other media.

Degree supervisor (dgs)

Library of Congress: A person overseeing a higher level academic degree.
MoEML uses the term degree supervisor to designate a person who has taken on the role as a supervisor for an academic project. Examples of this are Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA), directed readings, honours theses, and graduate final projects.

Data Contributor (dtc)

Library of Congress: A person or organization that submits data for inclusion in a database or other collection of data.
MoEML uses the term data contributor to designate a person who has contributed a number of entries to one of our databases (the personography, the orgography, the glossary, or the bibliography).

Data manager (dtm)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for managing databases or other data sources.
MoEML uses the term data manager to designate contributors who maintain and manage our databases. They add and update the data sent to us by external contributors or found by MoEML team members. They also monitor journals and sources regularly to ensure that our databases are current.

Editor (edt)

Library of Congress: A person or organization who prepares for publication a work not primarily their own, such as by elucidating text, adding introductory or other critical matter, or technically directing an editorial staff.
MoEML uses the term editor to designate a person who creates a modern edition of a work based on one of our encoded diplomatic transcriptions of a primary source. We use the term commentator to designate a person who adds editorial or explanatory notes to one of our diplomatic transcriptions.

Engraver (egr)

Library of Congress: A person or organization who cuts letters, figures, etc. on a surface, such as a wooden or metal plate used for printing.
MoEML uses the term engraver as specified in the Library of Congress specification.

Event place (evp)

Library of Congress: Use for the name of the place where an event such as a conference or a concert took place.

Facsimilist (fac)

Library of Congress: A person or organization that executed the facsimile.
MoEML uses the term facsimilist to designate the unit or team that has digitized page images for us.

Geographic information specialist (gis)

Library of Congress: A person responsible for geographic information system (GIS) development and integration with global positioning system data.
MoEML uses the term geographic information specialist to designate a contributor who has georeferenced a dataset (or data within the dataset) or added geo-coordinates to a historical map.

Metadata contact (mdc)

Library of Congress: A person or organization primarily responsible for compiling and maintaining the original description of a metadata set (e.g., geospatial metadata set).
The MoEML Metadata Contact Person will normally be the Project Manager (at london@uvic.ca), who will delegate the work of correcting and updating our metadata as necessary.

Markup editor (mrk)

Library of Congress: A person or organization performing the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup of metadata, text, etc.
MoEML uses the code mrk both for the primary encoder(s) and for the person who edits the encoding. MoEML’s normal workflow includes a step whereby encoders check each other’s work. We use the term encoder to designate the principal encoder, and markup editor to designate the person who checks the encoding.

Publisher (pbl)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for publishing, releasing, or issuing a resource.
MoEML uses the term publisher in two ways: to indicate the publisher of an early modern book (the publisher might also be the bookseller), and to indicate the publisher of a book, journal, or digital project.

Project director (pdr)

Library of Congress: 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.
MoEML’s Project Director directs the intellectual and scholarly aspects of the project, consults with the Advisory and Editorial Boards, and ensures the ongoing funding of the project.

Proofreader (pfr)

Library of Congress: A person who corrects printed matter.
MoEML uses the term proofreader to designate a contributor who checks a transcription against an original document, or a person who corrects formatting and typographical errors in a born-digital article. Note that we use the term markup editor to designate a person who proofreads and corrects encoding.

Photographer (pht)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for taking photographs, whether they are used in their original form or as reproductions.
MoEML uses the term photographer to designate a person or organization responsible for taking photographs, whether they are used in their original form or as reproduction.

Programmer (prg)

Library of Congress: 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.
MoEML uses the term programmer to designate 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.

Printer (prt)

Library of Congress: A person or organization who prints texts, whether from type or plates.
MoEML uses the term printer to designate the person named as the printer on the title page of a primary source text, or the person identified by scholars as the printer (e.g., in the English Short Title Catalogue database). In early modern printing practice, the roles of printer, bookseller, and publisher might coincide in one person, or be performed by different people.

Researcher (res)

Library of Congress: A person or organization responsible for performing research.
MoEML uses the term researcher to designate any person who has contributed substantive research to an article or project. Encyclopedia pages will usually have a researcher.

Research team head (rth)

Library of Congress: A person who directed or managed a research project.
MoEML uses the terms research term head and assistant project manager interchangeably.

Research team member (rtm)

Library of Congress: A person who participated in a research project but whose role did not involve direction or management of it.
MoEML uses the term research team member to acknowledge the contributions of a person who was a member of our research team and participated in discussions about a page or project. We give credit in this way only when no other category applies.

Transcriber (trc)

Library of Congress: A person who prepares a handwritten or typewritten copy from original material, including from dictated or orally recorded material.
MoEML uses the term transcriber to designate the person or organization that transcribes a primary source. In the case of EEBO-TCP transcribers, we do not know the names of the transcribers. Acceptable names for this role are transcriber, first transcriber (often the EEBO-TCP transcriber), or MoEML transcriber.

Translator (trl)

Library of Congress: 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.
MoEML uses the term translator to acknowledge the work of people who translate foreign languages for us. Normally, we call upon colleagues in the language departments at the University of Victoria to perform this role.

Map of Early Modern London Local Responsibility Relator Taxonomy

MoEML has created codes and definitions for responsibility statements not currently defined by the Library of Congress’ MARC Code List for Relators. For a description of how MoEML uses the Library of Congress’ codes, see Library of Congress Responsibility Relator Taxonomy

Copy editor (cpy)

MoEML uses the term copy editor to designate the person who brings the document into conformity with MoEML stylistic and citational practice. Acceptable names for this role are copy editor, principal copy editor, secondary copy editor, or copy editor of a particular section of text.

Toponymist (top)

MoEML uses the term toponymist to designate the person who identifies the place references in a text and points them to the right place in our locations database. The toponymist does not necessarily encode the toponyms. In most cases, the author of a born-digital article or the editor of a primary-source document will also be the toponymist.

Vetter (vet)

MoEML uses the term vetter to designate an academic or expert reviewer who reads and judges the publishability of scholarly material before it is published by MoEML.

Cross-vetter (cvt)

MoEML uses the terms cross-vetter orcross-reviewer to designate a MoEML contributor who checks facts in digital scholarly material that has already been published on MoEML. Cross-vetters check articles on streets, sites, and organizations that are closely related to their own scholarly work in progress. For further information, see the full description of our review process.

CSS editor (cse)

MoEML uses the term CSS Editor for a person who adds CSS styling to the transcription of a primary source. We use CSS styling to describe the bibliographic features of the texts we transcribe. For further information, see our page on Using Cascading Style Sheet Language.

Guest editor (ged)

MoEML uses the term Guest Editor in two ways: (1) an instructor who participates in our Pedagogical Partnership and edits content generated by their students; and (2) a contributor who solicits, coordinates, and edits a number of entries written by other contributors.

Project manager (pmg)

MoEML uses the term Project Manager for a person who handles the administration for the project.

References

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MLA citation

The MoEML Team The MoEML Team. Responsibility Taxonomy. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 15 Sep. 2020, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/responsibility_taxonomy.htm.

Chicago citation

The MoEML Team The MoEML Team. Responsibility Taxonomy. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed September 15, 2020. https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/responsibility_taxonomy.htm.

APA citation

The MoEML Team The MoEML Team. 2020. Responsibility Taxonomy. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/responsibility_taxonomy.htm.

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