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Guidelines for cataloguing images using the Picture Queensland web form
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6. Contributor
Field Label: CONTRIBUTOR
Definition: The name of the person or organisation that has played an important but secondary role in creating the content of the resource and is not specified in the creator element.
Purpose: This element is useful if more than one person or organisation contributed to the resource, and it is important to discover the resource by searching for that person or organisation.
Obligation: Optional
Input guidelines
6.1 Use this field in circumstances where it is important to provide an access point for a person or organisation associated with the creation of the resource, but is not the primary creator.
6.2 Follow Form of Name in PHOTOGRAPHER field.
6.3 When an image has been taken from a newspaper, use the title of the newspaper from the period in which the photograph was taken, and not the newspaper's current title. It may be necessary to check the library catalogues for the correct form of the title.
For example:
- If an image is taken from the Brisbane Courier (1864-1933) do not use Courier-mail (Brisbane, Qld.) (the newspaper's current title)
Commercial photographic studios
6.4 Use the CONTRIBUTOR field for photographic studios instead of the PHOTOGRAPHER field. This is based on the assumption that a studio may have more than one photographer employed and we cannot be sure of the individual photographer. This applies also to studio names that include the name of the chief photographer, eg, Albert Lomer and Co. See Commercial Photographers and Studios under the PHOTOGRAPHER field for full guidelines.
Last updated: 4th June 2007
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