The foaf:maker property relates something to a foaf:Agent that foaf:made it. As such it is an inverse of the foaf:made property.

The foaf:name (or other rdfs:label) of the foaf:maker of something can be described as the dc:creator of that thing.

For example, if the thing named by the URI http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/ has a foaf:maker that is a foaf:Person whose foaf:name is 'Dan Brickley', we can conclude that http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/ has a dc:creator of 'Dan Brickley'.

FOAF descriptions are encouraged to use dc:creator only for simple textual names, and to use foaf:maker to indicate creators, rather than risk confusing creators with their names. This follows most Dublin Core usage. See UsingDublinCoreCreator for details.