I wonder how Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or others would have felt if we always referred to “George Washington’s Declaration of Independence?” I bet they’d feel a lot like those of us in the measurement field who have volunteered for years to craft best practices and standards did yesterday when we got the following email :
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For the record, David Rockland was one of a large team of communications and research professionals called the IPR Measurement Commission that collaborated with other international groups to create the Barcelona Principles. You can read more of the story here: https://painepublishing.com/the-secret-backstory-of-the-barcelona-principles/. Just as the Declaration of Independence and other significant efforts are always the results of numerous people, no single individual was or ever will be “the creator of the Barcelona Principles.”
