Hello all -

Here is what we have related to graphics material (I'll spare you all of our roles). Our graphics curator specializes in prints, so she was very particular about the terms used in direct relating to printing, and made sure that we tried to cover all of our bases.
I agree about Artist - we need to define that a bit better ourselves. I know she's used Artist for noting the person that may have drawn an image on a lithographic stone (if we know who it was). For our paintings we have "Painter" but I think that seems redundant to Artist? Anyway:

After a Work by - After a Work by
Artist - Made by (changed depending on what the item is)
Draftsman - Drawn by
Painter - Painted by
Photographer - Photographed by
Printer - Printed by
Printmaker - Made by
Publisher - Published by
Subject - Portrait of
Surveyor - Surveyed by (usually for our maps)


And of the prefixes we change depending on the item.
Here is one of our examples with a lot of different roles:
Printer: Printed by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
Artist: Drawn on stone by Arthur Fowler
Draftsman: Drawn by R. Bakewell
After a work by: After a work by Captain Parker
After a work by: After a work by Captain Chase

For any uncertainty, we don't have a separate role, we change the Prefix to Probably or Possibly - so 'Possibly engraved by' - depending on our level of confidence in the attribution.
That way we can still pull everyone together that we are saying is a printer.

D.
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Hi all,
we are building our list of roles as we work and haven't distinguished between departments nor have we decided on a display order. Franz, I like your thought about the Artist role, it's true, it is rather imprecise and that has bothered me a bit. I'm thinking maybe we should consider not using it.
Here is what our list of roles looks like at present:
(Translated into English and with my explanations in parenthesis.)

Artist
Author (of texts, books etc.)
Depicted (in photos)
Model
Originator
Portrayed (in artworks)
Photographer
Printer
Printer, probable
Producer
Producer, probable
Recipient (of letters)
Recipient, probable (of letters)
Sender (of letters)
Translator

We've decided to mark uncertainty in the roles. In our previous system we had no real constituents list, and people marked uncertainty with '(?)' behind the name of the constituent, but that doesn't work very well when you want to work with a proper list of constituents with one entry pr constituent.
I suppose you need to have the roles your material requires, and I know we will need more roles (and probably modiy some of the ones we've already defined) when we continue working with our collection.

Best, Hilde
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