Dictionary definition(s) for: author

• n., The physical or juridical person having the authority and capacity to issue the record or in whose name or by whose command the record has been issued.
  [ Archives - Template for Analysis , Page: 204 ]
  Authenticity Task Force. "Template for Analysis." Appendix 1 in The Long-term Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records: Findings of the InterPARES Project. Edited by Luciana Duranti. San Miniato, Italy: Archilab, 2005. Also available online at http://interpares.org/book.
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  • Ontology A
• n., May be an individual or organisation. To be captured whenever possible.
  [ Archives - Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records (MoReq) - Glossary , Page: 97 ]
  European Commission. Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records: MoReq Specification . Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001. http://www.cornwell.co.uk/moreqdocs/moreq.pdf.
• n., Persons who write or otherwise compose books, articles, poems, plays, or other works which involve literary composition and are intended for publication.
  [ Arts - Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ]
  J. Paul Getty Trust. Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2005. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_reseach/vocabularies/aat/
• n., The individual, group, or organization responsible for the content of a document.
  [ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
  Pearce-Moses, Richard. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
• n., The person competent, that is, having the authority and capacity, for generating the record, which is issued by it, by its command, or in its name. The author of the record may coincide with the author of the action in which the record participates or it may not.
  [ Archives - Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records , Page: 33 ]
  Duranti, Luciana, Terry Eastwood, and Heather MacNeil. Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
• n., The person, persons or corporate body, responsible for the writing or compilation fo a book or other publication not a periodical.
  [ Computer and Information Sciences - Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book ]
  Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book. 9th ed. Edited by Raymond John Prytherch. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 2000.