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In first instance, it concerns '''people found on the title page''' (author, editor, compiler, translator, ...). Names mentioned elsewhere in the work might also be recorded (for example a translator or editor mentioned in the preface or in the approbation); for '''illustrators''', this is checked systematically. Finally, one might also record authors found in '''external sources''', if that information is useful and reliable. This is explained in a general note, or in the bibliographical reference in which the information was found. With anonymously published works, the attributions are documented as best as possible.
Besides the types of personal authors mentioned above, the STCV also record corporate authors. A corporate author is usually found in '''government publications''' (placards, ordinances, statues, instructions, sentences, and so on). In those cases, the corporate author is the issuing agency.
A corporate author may also be recorded in a number of other publications. It is possible, for example, that the rules of a certain '''monastic order''' are issued in the name of the order, or theatre programmes may be supplied by a '''specific college''' of a specific order in a specific city, and so on.
Ruling monarchs, popes, bishops etcetera are always considered personal authors.
Contemporary synods, meetings, councils, ... of which the decisions are published, are considered corporate authors. If useful, any secretaries mentioned on the title page, may be recorded as 'editor'.