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
Summarize the contributorβs expertise, institutional role, and relevance to the Whiskey knowledge system.
Verification
Contributor Type is correct.
Existing Contributors were searched for duplicates.
Sort Name is populated.
Biography or official website is authoritative.
ORCID is recorded when available.
Source-specific roles are represented through Source Contributions, not in this page body.