Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002

EAD Elements

<author> Author

Description:

Name(s) of institution(s) or individual(s) responsible for compiling the intellectual content of the finding aid. May include a brief statement indicating the nature of the responsibility, for example, archivist, collections processor, or records manager. Because acknowledgment of such individuals or institutions often appears on the title page of a finding aid, the <author> element is available in both the required <titlestmt> portion of the <eadheader> and the optional <titlepage> element in <frontmatter>.

Use the <creation> element found under <profiledesc> to designate the encoder of the finding aid. Use the <persname> or <corpname> element with the ROLE attribute to designate the author in a Bibliographic Reference <bibref> citation. Use the <origination> element to designate the compiler, collector, or creator of the materials being described.

May contain:

#PCDATA, emph, extptr, lb, ptr

May occur within:

titlepage, titlestmt

Attributes:

Examples:

    1.
    <filedesc>
        <titlestmt>
            <titleproper>Register of the Rhea Higbee Wakeling Collection</titleproper>
            <author>The print and machine readable finding aids for this collection were
            created by the Special Collections staff, Gerald R. Sherratt Library.</author>
        </titlestmt>
    </filedesc>

    2.
    <frontmatter>
        <titlepage>
            <titleproper>Indians Overseas</titleproper>
                <subtitle>A guide to source materials in the India Office Records for the study
                of Indian emigration, 1830-1950</subtitle>
            <author>Timothy N. Thomas</author>
            <publisher>THE BRITISH LIBRARY<extptr entityref="plachold">
            </publisher>
            <date>1985</date>
        </titlepage>
    </frontmatter>