How does this help for those co-authors who are not employees of the 
University? As a repository manager using DSpace in my former role, even 
the functionality that you describe was not availaible to me, since the 
list of authors is at present entirely separate from the list generated 
from LDAP users who create an account in DSpace. There may have been 
some changes in DSpace 1.5.2, but I'm fairly confident in my memory that 
this is an issue that the developers are intending to resolve in 
forthcoming versions. EPrints clearly has a slight advantage in this 
area at present, although it does nothing to disambiguate author names 
who are not employees, as I understand it. Hopefully both issues are on 
the radar of the platform developers.


Talat

C.J.Smith wrote:
> Our repository is linked to our central HR system. In that way, author
> names are mapped to their unique university ID number, thus slotting all
> of their publications (no matter how their name is written in the
> published version) into the same author browse area. We use EPrints
> though, not DSpace.
>
>
>
> Colin Smith
> Research Repository Manager
> Open Research Online (ORO)
> Open University Library
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amanda Hill
> Sent: 01 July 2009 15:05
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Author name versioning query
>
> Dear Hannah
>
> The Names Project is developing its prototype service into a more
> comprehensive pilot which should (in the longer term!) be able to help
> with
> the situation you describe. Individuals are assigned a unique identifier
> and
> alternative forms of their names are associated with this. The data is
> being
> made available through an API (current documentation on this is at
> http://130.88.120.172:8080/help.html, with some example searches of the
> prototype). Bear in mind that this prototype is very much a work in
> progress, so the data is subject to change.
>
> We are using names from the Zetoc service (and some supplied by the
> Wellcome
> Trust) as the raw material for this pilot, but as these are only
> surnames
> and initials, we are always on the lookout for other, more complete name
> data.
>
> If anyone working in a UK repository would like to share their current
> names
> data with the Names Project, please get in touch with us. Our
> developer's
> email address is [log in to unmask]
>
> Amanda
>
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> Amanda Hill
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> Mimas
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>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Repositories discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hannah 
>>     
> Elizabeth 
>   
>> Payne [hep]
>> Sent: 01 July 2009 07:23
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Author name versioning query
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>>
>> A query has been raised from one of our project partners at the 
>> University of Glamorgan and I wondered whether anybody had 
>>     
> any working 
>   
>> practices in place that they would share with us?
>> The query relates to author name versioning in DSpace and how best to 
>> manage the phenomenon of the same author publishing under a number of 
>> name variants. Obviously if you stay true to the published 
>>     
> author name 
>   
>> each time you will end up with a number of author identities 
>>     
> in DSpace, 
>   
>> when using the browse by author function, for the same author. The 
>> solution that is currently utilised by another WRN partner at the 
>> University of Bangor, is to use an agreed author name from 
>>     
> the academic 
>   
>> in the dc:contributor field but then to add the published 
>>     
> author name, 
>   
>> if different, in the dc:citation field. With this method you 
>>     
> will have 
>   
>> one author record in DSpace, which has been agreed with the academic, 
>> but you are still staying true to the published author name in each 
>> case which shouldn't affect the item's discovery through search and 
>> discovery services such as Google; OAIster. However, has anyone else 
>> come up with any other methods for dealing with this problem that may 
>> be a bit more automated?
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Hannah Payne
>>
>> Repository Support Officer
>>
>> Welsh Repository Network (WRN)
>>
>> Aberystwyth University
>>
>>
>>
>> 01970 628490
>>
>>
>>
>>     
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