| Moderator | Moderator | Reviewing Maintenance changes and posting those changes, is vetted |
| Reviewer/editor | Maintenance | Has Maintainer privileges, affiliated with an institution and vouchedfor by that institution, vetted, interacts with Moderators |
| Content expert | Maintenance | Not affiliated with an institution, a domain expert, has Maintainer privileges, vetted, interacts with Moderators |
| Documentary editor | | |
| Maintenance | (Same as Reviewer/editor?) | |
| Researcher (read-only) | Researcher | The main consumer of SNAC, uses the public web interface to search and discover, has an account so they can save searches and use other session related features |
| Institutional archival description donor | Block upload | Member of an institution that donates blocks of descriptions, may have block upload privs, may have update privs |
| Name authority manager | Name authority | Someone in charge of a name authority, donates descriptions to SNAC, may have some Admin privs to update descriptions, may have bulk upload privs |
| Institutional admins | | These users need an admin dashboard with corresponding reports. We may need to have sub-institution accounts and that gets tricky because we don't want to be mixed up in internal institutional politics. |
| | | Certain users will be distinguished by having access to administrative reports for their institution (but probably not for other institutions). |