Record contributors

Definition: The person/persons involved in the creation of the record. (FAILTE)
Obligation: Compulsory
Type of element: Restricted vocabulary

Entry guidelines

The recording of the names of record contributors is especially useful in a database that is contributed to by a number of people, so that cataloguers can identify each other's work.

Each time a person logs in and views a record in edit mode, their initials will automatically be added to the record as a contributor. If that person has already been recorded as being involved in the creation of the record, however, then the initials will not be added again.