Hi,
i can only think of implementing an Authority Control for that.
Anyway, deposit workflow is meant to accomplish that task (validate/correct
metadata values).
On 29 August 2012 16:22, Darren Arsenault <arse...@algonquincollege.com>wrote:
> I posted this a week ago and no one has responded yet, so I'm trying again:
>
> "For input fields where it is not possible (or practical) to implement
> controlled vocabularies or drop down lists, is there a less
> labour-intensive way of preventing data entry errors? For example: The
> author of several documents is "ABC Statistics Inc.", but each document is
> added by a different ePerson,and each of these people makes a spelling
> error when filling out the AUTHOR field, so these items appear to have
> different authors. ("ABC Statisitcs, Inc.", "ABC Statistics, Inc", "ABC
> Statistics", etc.).
>
> Originally I thought that this would be a minor issue, easily correctable
> through raw SQL queries to update the offending fields. Unfortunately, my
> estimates as to the number of mistakes that would be made has proven to be
> extremely conservative. I do not want to be responsible for correcting so
> many entries myself, nor do I want to reject so many entries asking users
> to match the AUTHOR name that already exists."
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>
>
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