the function of a person or organization in regards to creating, providing, supporting, hosting or cataloging the news, event or opportunity a person or organization who creates content a person or organization who catalogs a person or organization who can provide more information a person or organization who performs quality control on metadata records the RSS channel making the content accessible a person or organization who makes content accessible a person or organization who hosts or supports news, events or opportunities a person or organization who accessions metadata records into a collection Determine a role for each contributor and then select the appropriate role term. If a person or organization fits more than a single role, complete contributor information again for each different role term needed. Use the role term Cataloger if compiling (cataloging) the information about the news, event or opportunity Do not use the role terms of Editor or Validator unless you are part of a cataloging team that is creating a collection. required metadata if parent tag is present 1 1 string controlled vocabulary Publisher This field is an attribute on the contributor field.