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Author or creator?



DEar colleagues,
currently, I am trying to co-ordinate a round table to write our local 
guidelines. We are using, as basic documents, ISAD(G)2 and USMARC; my 
problem is we have arrived to a cul-de-sac. SOme of the members of the 
team think "creator" is inherited anyway, and some other think that, at 
least at the level of single document, item, etc., we'd better use 
author, even if creator is inherited. I've reviewed some standards, 
glossaries, projects...:INTERPARES, EAD, IDEF... In mmy opinion, the 
second approach is correct. For instance, I have to describe a document 
signed by Alfonso the Xth, hel by Local Archives of Cartagena. At the 
upper levels, the creator would be the Council of Cartagena; but at the 
level of the document, the author would be Alfonso the Xth, even if the 
Council is inherited as the creator. The main argument against this 
solution is it would destroy the single procedence or "moral defence of 
archives", but I cannot see this problem, since, on the one hand, I 
have the automated description and display, and, on the other, the 
automated arragenment and linking between levels.
Do some of you know a proper definition for "author" and/or "creator", 
in such a way I can reach a peace treatment for the round table?
Thank you and best regards
Alejandro Delgado Gómez
Cartagena City Council (Spain)

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