Use one authority record per real person or organization. Source-specific roles and credit order belong in Source Contributions.
Identity
Canonical identity
Record the preferred public name and normalized Sort Name. For people, separate given, middle, family, and suffix fields when known.
Disambiguation
Record affiliations, dates, pseudonyms, similarly named people, or other details needed to prevent mistaken identity.
Authority summary
Legal-research repository that supplied the complete public transcript used for preservation.
Verification note
Repository role is recorded as Publisher, not as judicial author. ORCID does not apply.