LEX-47 / Disciplinary term
Attribution
Identifying the people or organizations responsible for a work and linking the source of a contribution.
01 / Origins
Where it comes from
Creative Commons recommends identifying title, author, source and licence when crediting its licensed works.
02 / Translation
How we use it
Keep credits close to the reference and identify what the archive has adapted or added.
03 / What this does not establish
Credit does not by itself grant permission or imply that the source endorses the adaptation.
Try the idea
Keep the route back visible.
A copper-inspired interface
A green accent on warm paper.
- Reference
- Getty’s account of bronze surface conservation.
- Our choice
- Carry a copper/green colour relationship into a digital study.
- Our departure
- No claim to reproduce a sculpture, its history or its chemical state.
- Credit
- Reference institution and source link stay with the study.
An illustrative decision record. Attribution identifies a contribution; provenance records relationships. Neither substitutes for permission or proves a claim true.
The route back
Sources & further reading
Sources support the context described here. The archive's design translations remain interpretations.
- Creative Commons. (n.d.). Recommended practices for attribution. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution
Explains source credit and licence identification for CC-licensed works.
Cite this entry / revised 2026-11-05
The Chromologium. (2026). Attribution. The architectural lexicon. https://chromologium.com/lexicon/attribution