# Participants

This ontology recognises a wide range of roles for participants in the processes of collecting and managing data. Because they are Properties, there is no DefinedTermSet which collects them together. This page provides a quick reference which lists the roles.

[annotator](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/annotator)\
[author](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/author)\
[compiler](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/compiler)\
[consultant](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/consultant)\
[dataInputter](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/datainputter)\
[depositor ](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/depositor)\
[developer](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/developer)\
[editor](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/editor)\
[illustrator](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/illustrator)\
[interpreter](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/interpreter)\
[interviewee](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/interviewee)\
[interviewer](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/interviewer)\
[participant](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/participant)\
[performer](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/performer)\
[photographer](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/photographer)\
[recorder](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/recorder)\
[researchParticipant](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/researchparticipant)\
[researcher](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/researcher)\
[responder](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/responder)\
[signer](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/signer)\
[speaker](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/speaker)\
[sponsor](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/sponsor)\
[transcriber](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/transcriber)\
[translator](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/translator)

All of these roles can be properties which constrain the general category [schema.org:contributor](https://schema.org/contributor).