Why not "personality"? Surely Geronimo Stilton and Koko the Gorilla
and Racter are recognizable to us as such. Persoenlichkeit ...
Works in German, too!
In despair, before now, trying to find a single term for our opac
that would cover any of the below PLUS speakers, performers,
composers, artists, engravers, while having to deal with a character
limit for the opac label, I have thought of resorting to "Person".
But I didn't.
Cheers
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It would be nice if RDA could find a better word than 'author' to
encompass actors, entertainers, musicians, sculptors, composers,
photographers, painters, etc., but perhaps there is no such word.
The imprecise term "creator" is used in some contexts. But I find it
hard to extend it to editors, compilers, translators -- all of whom may
be genuinely involved in creation of intellectual/artistic content, of
course -- let alone "relationship" types such as festschrift honoree.
--
Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala, Ph.D.
"I teach cataloging."
