Authordatetyyppisiä
Authordatetyyppisiä is a Finnish adjective used in library science and data modeling to describe data or data structures that pertain to author-type classifications within metadata. In practice, it denotes metadata elements that encode the typology of authorship—who contributed as author, editor, translator, illustrator, or in other roles—within a resource’s description. The concept emphasizes distinguishing different kinds of contribution rather than treating all contributors as a single author.
The word is formed in Finnish by combining the English loan phrase “author data” with the Finnish
Applications and examples: In metadata catalogs and data models, authordatetyyppisiä data would support role-based indexing and
Relation to standards: The idea aligns with the broader distinction between agents and their roles, such as