The National Archives Catalog

Attribution Type: Contributor Username

Mandatory Repeatable Edit Type Data Type Source Level Available Public Element
No Yes Editable by Original Contributor Only Variable Character Length (100) Catalog Community Member Comment
Location Name Elements
Prefix
First Name
Middle Name
Surname
Suffix
Occupation
OCR Transcription
OCR Validation
Tag
Transcription
Translation
Yes

 

Definition:

Contributor is the unique name of the Catalog user who made the contribution. It may be a nickname and does not necessarily reflect the user’s real name.

 

 

Purpose: To allow Catalog users to know from where the contribution came.

 

Relationship: Contributor Username is dependent on the unique Catalog user account.

 

Guidance:

Contributor is automatically attributed to catalog contributions to identify the person making the contribution.

 

Examples:

 

Description Title - Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9061, Jeremiah Herbert, Md. (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/54855827)
Contributor Username - hannahclaire757733131
Page 2 Transcription - Mary Her
widow of Jeremiah
M of Jeremiah Herbert
who served in the Revolu
war, as a Priraite
Inscribed on the Roll at the
of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to comment
in the 4th day of March, 1818
Certificate of Pens
29 day of
and sent to
C. I. R
Spring fi
Recorded on Roll of Pensitoneraunder
February 2, 1848, Pare236 Vol.

 
Description Title - Stockton, California. Young persons of Japanese ancestry, second and third generation Americans. T . . . (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/537722)
Contributor Username - jimtabuchi
Comment - This is a picture of my father, George Shoji Tabuchi, pictured in the middle wearing a hat. He is playing with his friends who have just been sent to Stockton Relocation Center at the San Joaquin Fairgrounds.

 

 



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