adl:originators

The adl:originators bucket contains any text describing people or institutions responsible for the object's creation or dissemination (that is, any entity that could be an object's source). In addition to authors and publishers, this could include funding agencies, curators, technical support personnel, etc.

The level of aggregation in the adl:originators bucket tends to complicate some kinds of searches, since the bucket doesn't include semantics for personal or corporate names, nor does it require a particular kind of normalization when names are entered. As a result, queries for specific personal names will necessarily be approximate.