Hi Sean, the assignment of authority keys that you are seeing are related to the new SOLR authority index that was added as part of the ORCID integration: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/ORCID+Integration
To change the authority key on an individual record, using the Admin edit option, you should normally be able to use the "lookup" button, to look for another ID/Author in the index, which will update the key in the metadata. There is also an index-authority script that already supports a number of use cases to help you keep the index clean: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/ORCID+Integration#ORCIDIntegration-Importingexistingauthors&keepingtheindexuptodate Since this feature is new since DSpace 5, it would be really helpful if you could report any deficiencies or problems with the feature as JIRA tickets, so we can extend and improve this feature in future releases. thanks, Bram -- [image: logo] *Bram Luyten* *250 Lucius Gordon Drive, Suite B-3A, West Henrietta, NY 14586* *Esperantolaan 4, Heverlee 3001, Belgium* www.atmire.com <http://atmire.com/website/?q=services&utm_source=emailfooter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=braml> On 17 September 2015 at 12:36, Sean Carte <sean.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of our authors appears twice in the Discovery Author list. This seems > to have something to do with authority control because, when I looked at > the metadata for dc. contributor. author, one group displayed a thumbs up, > with the message 'This authority value has been confirmed as accurate by an > interactive user', while the others were either: 'Value is singular and > valid but has not been seen and accepted by a human so it is still > uncertain' or 'No reasonable confidence value was returned from the > authority'. > > According to the docs ( > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Authority+Control+of+Metadata+Values#AuthorityControlofMetadataValues-Confidence > ): > Authority-controlled fields furthermore include an authority key box below > the field, and a confidence icon: > > 1. The authority key is normally read-only, but it may be changed > after clicking the "unlock" icon. > 2. If you change the authority key interactively, the confidence value > becomes *ACCEPTED* since it was set by a human. > 3. A confidence icon is always shown, even when there is no authority > key. This is because the confidence *is* significant; when it is > *ACCEPTED* it means a human approved the authority value *even* if it > is blank. > > So I should change the key for the unauthorised author metadata? But I'm > not seeing any 'unlock' icon. (Please see attached screenshot.) > > How do I change the authority key? > > I'm using DSpace 5.3 with the Mirage 2 XMLUI. (I have tried the Mirage and > Reference themes also.) > > Sean > -- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
