9 Creator

The creator is someone responsible for making the text or resource.

Question to Consider When Determining a Creator

• Who is responsible for putting the content of the resource or text together?
• Are you documenting a whole resource or a portion of a text? For example, if you are creating metadata for an entire high school yearbook, you might consider listing the author as the organization responsible for creating it, such as the school’s Yearbook Club. But, if you were creating metadata for a note written to the owner of a specific high school yearbook, you might consider listing the author as the writer of the note while noting that the note is part of a larger text.

Creator Examples

• Photographers of a photo
• Writers of a letter
• Federal organizations responsible for creating census records, birth certificates, death certificates, and other government documents meant to identify people