We have some cases where a single person has been the author of some items in our repository and the advisor on other items. In these cases, we are seeing duplicate entries in the author browse on DSpace. This is because when the person is an author, they are given one authority key, and when they are an advisor they are given a different authority key. We have tried applying the same authority key to both situations in order to merge the entries, but DSpace will not let us do this.
If seeing an example in action will help: Here is a link to our DSpace instance: https://dspace.aus.edu:8443/xmlui/browse Peter Crompton has two entries in our author browse; one with 19 items he authored, the other with 4 he advised on. We have tried changing the authority key on his Advisor items to his Author one and vice versa but DSpace seems to force them separate. [19] - Author "5314b715-a110-4554-95f8-869bff410cd6" [4] - Advisor "798a55e5-23c6-4008-b158-42883c3d7d00" If you have any insight or advice as to how to merge an individual's identities, please let us know. I apologize for cross-posting. Thank you, Veronique Lecat & Veronica Ramshaw American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
