It would be nice if there were an admin tool that could search and replace
author/contributor names... barring the implementation of ORCID of course.
We have collected about 50000 authors now and about 3000 advisors at a
University with 800 staff. This does not compute as Spock in Star Trek
would say.
On 5 February 2013 21:11, Rosamilia, Nichole * <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I’m curious about what processes people are using to implement name
> authority in DSpace.****
>
> ** **
>
> We plan to use author names from our office directory. However, when a
> researcher’s bibliographic citations are pulled from databases like Web of
> Science, there can be a lot of name variation and no identifier linking the
> variations to the same researcher, much less to our office directory. We’ve
> compiled a bibliography with hundreds of citations to load.****
>
> ** **
>
> Barring implementing ORCID (which we are exploring), how does your
> institution handle this? Right now, it looks like we’ll end up writing a
> script to find/replace variations with the preferred name from the office
> directory. This likely still entails a fair amount of time and manual
> cleanup. Any advice, tips, or even just confirmation that others are taking
> a similar approach, are appreciated.****
>
> ** **
>
> Nichole ****
>
> ** **
>
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