Editors should be able to arbitrarily define maker roles on projects and texts.

[zdavis]

For example, how would we handle a translator on a text? These roles can be fairly arbitrary.

Right now we have "author" and "contributor," which won't meet the needs of the community.

[zdavis]

@susanmpls Could you give us the list of 18+/- CIP roles that you mentioned in our wonderful PDX meeting?

[susanmpls]

Here is the list of roles that we track in the UMP database:
Author, Editor, Edited by, Preface, Foreword, Introduction, Afterword, Translator, Illustrator, Photographer, Artist, Contributor, Series Editor, Essay by, Retold by, Adapted by, Collected and Revised by, Agent, we use "Other Proprietor" for the previous publisher(s) and to list rights holders (estates, archives, museums, etc.), and we have an "Other" catch-all field for everything else.

[zdavis]

Thank you, Susan!

[zdavis]

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[mkgold]

This issue just came up at CUNY, where editors of a collection noted that "Author" is the only role allowed

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