# participant

The contributor was present during the creation of the resource, but did not contribute substantially to its content.

This role is intended for minor participants such as audience members or other peripherally-involved participants in the event. These interlocutors need not have been physically present. They could be participants in some form of long-distance communication, such as lurkers in an online discussion, or they may have participated in a general sense of having allowed the creation event to take place. For example, if an event could not have taken place without the permission of a community leader, the **participant** role could be associated with that person.

The value of this property is expected to be one of the types:\
[schema:Person](https://schema.org/Person)\
[schema:Organization](https://schema.org/Organization)

This property is used on the type:\
[schema:CreativeWork](https://schema.org/CreativeWork)

[OLAC](http://www.language-archives.org/REC/role.html#participant)

[List of participant roles](../readme/participants).
