The producer is the person or organization with the financial or administrative responsibility for the physical processes whereby the document was brought into existence. Use the "role" attribute to distinguish different stages of involvement in the production process, such as original producer. Producer of data collection (codeBook/stdyDscr/citation/prodStmt/producer) maps to Dublin Core Publisher element. The "producer" in the Document Description should be the agency or person that prepared the marked-up document. If the attribute "agentIdentifier" is used, "typeOfAgentIdentifier" should also be provided. Use "isPersistentIdentifier" (true|false) to indicate if this is intended to be a persistent identifier. Use "agentType" to indicate if the agent is an organization or an individual.
<producer abbr="ICPSR" affiliation="Institute for Social Research">Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research</producer>
<producer abbr="MNPoll" affiliation="Minneapolis Star Tribune Newspaper" role="original producer">Star Tribune Minnesota Poll</producer>
<producer abbr="MRDC" affiliation="University of Minnesota" role="final production">Machine Readable Data Center</producer>