You can, per PCC guidelines, use "creator" if nothing else is appropriate.
However, author is what should be used in my opinion.
author A person, family, or corporate body responsible for creating a work
that is primarily textual in content, regardless of media type (e.g.,
printed text, spoken word, electronic text, tactile text) or genre (e.g.,
poems, novels, screenplays, blogs).
Works can include other works. A conference proceedings as a whole is a
work, and the individual papers are also works. But as an aggregate work,
I think "author" is applicable to the conference corporate body access
point.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Adam L. Schiff
Principal Cataloger
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900
(206) 543-8409
(206) 685-8782 fax
asch...@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
Susan Lewis asked (an SLC cataloguer):
Did we come up with something for this?
No, we still have no relationship designator for a conference, either
111 or 711. Just leave it off if we haven't one by our implementation
date August 15th? Should we consider "issuing body" even though they
are not always the publisher?
I don't think they can be considered "author"; the individual speakers
(of their TAs) wrote the papers. Also "contributor" does not work;
the conference received the contributions; "compiler" would seem to
apply to the individual editor rather than to the body.
__ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca)
{__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
