> From: lac
> The last subfield, the id, is there precisely to identify the author
> uniquely
[...]
> It is of course dependent on people adding my email address
> correctly
What happens when an institution makes some mass change to its IDs - for example when UMIST and University of Manchester merged, and the old man.ac.uk and umist.ac.uk addresses all changed to manchester.ac.uk? Should there be a similar one-off mass change in Eprints? Similarly, but on a smaller scale, what happens when someone changes their name (for example after marriage)?
I'm interested, as many people reckon email addresses can be used as unique IDs. They definitely can't in the general case, and it's a dubious assumption even in UK academia.
- Peter
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