---
id: "author_name"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["texts", "persons", "pii"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 65
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/author_name"
---

# Author name (byline) (`author_name`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name of the author or authors of a text as written in a byline, a citation or a catalogue record. One value often lists several names separated by commas, semicolons or "and", and names may be inverted (Austen, Jane) or abbreviated (J. Austen). The author can be an organization. Field names are author, authors, byline, creator and author_name. Wikidata keeps such names in property P2093 when the author has no item; for a single person's name see person_fullname.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Texts and  articles (texts), Person related (persons), Personally identifiable information (pii)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Examples

- `Jane Austen` — Author of Pride and Prejudice
- `Tolstoy, Leo` — Inverted form used in library catalogues

## Mappings

- schema_org: `author`
- wikidata: `P2093`

## Translations

- ru: Автор (подпись к тексту): Имя автора или авторов текста в том виде, в каком оно указано в подписи, ссылке или каталожной записи. В одном поле часто перечислено несколько авторов.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2093>
- schema.org: <https://schema.org/author>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline>

## Quality

Score 65/100. Missing: regexp, negative example, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/author_name.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/texts/author_name.yaml>