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willu47 opened this issue Apr 10, 2024 · 0 comments
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Handle duplicate authors #4

willu47 opened this issue Apr 10, 2024 · 0 comments
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willu47 commented Apr 10, 2024

Despite improvements to the author checking and matching algorithm, which although simple does an effective job of matching authors, duplicates still appear from time to time.

A function to merge authors is required. This should:

  • take the uuid of two duplicate authors
  • merge fields of the two authors (or request input to select which fields to keep in the merged author profile)
  • create a new author profile (or add :sameAs relation between them)
  • update the :author_of relations so that they point to the merged author

Issues:

  • external links to any deleted duplicate author would break if the author was deleted
  • using :sameAs relations adds complexity to queries e.g. listing publications from an author AND any author which is :sameAs author
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