---
title: Contributor Keys
framework: scenekit
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: scenekit/contributor-keys
---

# Contributor Keys

Metadata identifying the user and authoring tool that created a scene file, used with the SCNSceneSourceAssetContributorsKey key.

## Overview

Overview Authoring tools that generate scene files may include metadata identifying the name and version of the authoring software and the name of the user who created the file. The values for these keys are NSString objects.

## Topics

### Constants

- [SCNSceneSourceAssetAuthoringToolKey](scenekit/scnscenesourceassetauthoringtoolkey.md)
- [SCNSceneSourceAssetAuthorKey](scenekit/scnscenesourceassetauthorkey.md)

## See Also

### Constants

- [SCNSceneSource.LoadingOption](scenekit/scnscenesource/loadingoption.md)
- [Scene Source Properties](scenekit/scene-source-properties.md)
- [Unit Dictionary Keys](scenekit/unit-dictionary-keys.md)
- [Scene Loading Error Keys](scenekit/scene-loading-error-keys.md)
- [Scene File Consistency Error Keys](scenekit/scene-file-consistency-error-keys.md)
- [Scene File Consistency Check Error Codes](scenekit/1573761-scene-file-consistency-check-err.md)
- [SCNSceneSourceStatusHandler](scenekit/scnscenesourcestatushandler.md)
- [SCNSceneSourceStatus](scenekit/scnscenesourcestatus.md)