Encoding Guide. Author

Record: AUTHOR
Every record has an author name (or initials) on the second line under the date. All text that appears before the first instance of the word “to” should be considered an author and coded under one author <a> tag. If there is no clearly defined “author to recipient” statement, the second line under the date should be tagged as a title, <ti>, see example #5, below. To conform to the RelaxNG schema, there should always be either an AUTHOR and/or a TITLE present in each record.

<a>John Adams</a>

<a>JA</a>

<a>JA, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson</a>