Name of Creator <origination>

Recommended

The organisation(s) or individual(s) responsible for the creation, accumulation and maintenance of the records being described.

VIAF, Archives Hub, TNA Discovery, DNB, local database, etc.

We recommend that a the 'origination' name matches an index entry, and the format is surname, forename, dates. ISAD(G) recommends using national conventions, which tend to be NCA Rules for the UK.

Recommended at collection level. Useful at component level to describe authors of particular materials, e.g. within correspondence files.

It is important to ensure the individual or organisation is correctly identified and non-ambiguous, so use life dates if possible, and add epithets as descriptors.The Editor provides for adding a VIAF ID which gives unambiguous identification.