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</div>
<!-- /external ids for authors -->

<!-- Editors -->
<!-- Editors / Translators -->
<div xml:id="section-contributor-roles">
<head>Additional Contributors</head>
<p>
There can be other roles in which a person contributes to the
creation of a play. In DraCor, we currently do not support
providing explicit information on the role of an individual
creator, but add them as authors in <gi>author</gi>. See the
example of the <ref target="https://dracor.org/gersh">German
Shakespeare Corpus</ref> below:
</p>
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
<titleStmt>
<title>Hamlet. Prinz von Dänemark</title>
<author>
<persName>
<forename>William</forename>
<surname>Shakespeare</surname>
</persName>
<!-- ... -->
</author>
<author>
<persName>
<forename>August</forename>
<forename>Wilhelm</forename>
<surname>Schlegel</surname>
</persName>
<!-- ... -->
</author>
<respStmt>
<resp>This digital edition was prepared by</resp>
<name ref="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2419-6629">Frank Fischer</name>
</respStmt>
</titleStmt>
</egXML>
<p>
This might change in the future. See the GitHub issue on
<ref target="https://github.com/dracor-org/dracor-schema/issues/71">Contributor
roles</ref>.
</p>
<div xml:id="section-translators">
<head>Translators</head>
<p>
Translators of a play are encoded using the element
<gi>editor</gi> in <gi>titleStmt</gi> with the attribute
<att>role</att> set to <val>translator</val>. As with
authors, the translator’s name is enclosed in
<gi>persName</gi> and can be further structured using
<gi>forename</gi> and <gi>surname</gi>. External
identifiers (e.g. Wikidata, GND) are added as
<gi>idno</gi> children – see
<ref target="#section-author-external-id">IDs in External
Reference Resources</ref>.
</p>
<p>
The following example from the
<ref target="https://dracor.org/id/gersh000014">German
Shakespeare Corpus</ref> shows Shakespeare’s
<title>Hamlet</title> in the translation by August Wilhelm
Schlegel:
</p>
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
<titleStmt>
<title>Hamlet. Prinz von Dänemark</title>
<author>
<persName>
<forename>William</forename>
<surname>Shakespeare</surname>
</persName>
<idno type="wikidata">Q692</idno>
<idno type="pnd">118613723</idno>
</author>
<editor role="translator">
<persName>
<forename>August</forename>
<forename>Wilhelm</forename>
<surname>Schlegel</surname>
</persName>
<idno type="wikidata">Q57281</idno>
<idno type="pnd">118607960</idno>
</editor>
<respStmt>
<resp when="2021-10-21">This digital edition was prepared by</resp>
<persName ref="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2419-6629">Frank Fischer</persName>
</respStmt>
</titleStmt>
</egXML>
<p>
Add one <gi>editor</gi> element per translator if a play
has been translated by more than one person.
</p>
</div>
<div xml:id="section-other-editor-roles">
<head>Other Editor Roles</head>
<p>
Corpus maintainers are free to encode other editor roles
by choosing an appropriate value for the <att>role</att>
attribute on <gi>editor</gi>. For the time being,
however, only <val>translator</val> will be picked up and
displayed by the DraCor frontend.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- /author information -->
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