title: What meta tag should I use to indicate the website (not content) author?
body: <p><strong>The issue:</strong> </p>
  
  <p>In HTML you can use <code>author</code> meta tag (or the <em>DC creator</em>) to indicate that someone is the author of the information (i.e. content). However, I want to be able to sign myself as a web application developer in meta tags. </p>
  
  <p>Most people are (in my opinion) <strong>misusing</strong> the <code>author</code> meta tag for the web application developer signature. For example when you develop blogging application, the author should be the article writer, not the application developer. But the name of the application developer is still useful meta information.</p>
  
  <p>I think that the <em>commonly used</em> set of meta tags is incomplete, because it does not offer a meta tag for this kind of information. Am I right, or did I miss something? What would you suggest?</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p><strong>Additional thoughts:</strong> </p>
  
  <p>Meta tags in digital publishing are closely following meta model used in paper publishing and libraries. The set of <a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/" rel="noreferrer">Dublin Core</a> elements might be good example for that. If we use this analogy, then <strong>publisher</strong> might be what I am looking for. Still, I feel that it is not. Publisher might be someone else than the web developer. Can you find better analogy with the <em>paper world</em>?</p>