Hi Scott, I'm pretty sure that the UI hints don't reflect what is stored in the database.
You should check the metadatavalue table, I expect that the confidence column is -1 (not used) for the values in the first screenshot as they don't have an authority and it should have some different value for the second screenshot. In the ideal case you should see a 600 value for the second screenshot, this mean that the association between Bray, George and the authority entry has been done by an user in an interactive process (submission, edit item, etc.) versus an automatic association during batch ingest or other automated task. The x in the UI in the second screen should allow you to clean the authority value to "detach" the item from the linked authority entry. There are some explanation of the confidence value in the javadoc here: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content/authority/Choices.java#L26 and in the original documentation of the authority framework https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Authority+Control+of+Metadata+Values#AuthorityControlofMetadataValues-Confidence Hope this move you a bit forward in the understanding of the authority framework. Andrea Il 21/08/2017 10:55, Scott Renton ha scritto: Thanks Andrea- fairly central to the post! Updated now- cheers. Scott On Friday, August 18, 2017 at 4:36:34 PM UTC+1, Bollini Andrea wrote: Hi Scott, I don't see screenshots attached to your email, both the latest one than the original one. Andrea Il 18/08/2017 16:56, Scott Renton ha scritto: Hi folks, just trying again in case no-one saw this first time round. Cheers Scott On Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 1:40:49 PM UTC+1, Scott Renton wrote: Hi folks Just trying to get to grips with how Author Confidence is controlled in dspace 5. Attaching two screenshots. One has some authors with no obvious ORCID or ID attached to them, 1 has "thumbs up" icons and the tooltip “This authority value has been confirmed as accurate by an interactive user”. Nobody to our knowledge has done anything to said users to generate that. Meanwhile 2 has a “Cross” icon (for deletion?) and the tooltip “Confidence was never recorded for this value”, even though it interestingly has a value! I can't find much in the way of documentation about it, but I think if I knew how the data was behaving to generate these it would be a big help for debugging. Cheers Scott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. To post to this group, send email to dspac...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech<https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fdspace-tech&e=8ef37f15&h=f69ab701&f=n&p=y>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout<https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Foptout&e=8ef37f15&h=9ae39a8b&f=n&p=y>. -- Questo messaggio e' stato analizzato con Libra ESVA ed e' risultato non infetto. Clicca qui per segnalarlo come spam.<https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fesva1.business-e.it%2Fcgi-bin%2Flearn-msg.cgi%3Fid%3DB425F41663.AB6B3&e=8ef37f15&h=03f0015e&f=n&p=y> -- Andrea Bollini Chief Technology and Innovation Officer 4Science, www.4science.it<https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.4science.it&e=8ef37f15&h=90f9bb84&f=n&p=y> office: Via Edoardo D'Onofrio 304, 00155 Roma, Italy mobile: +39 333 934 1808 skype: a.bollini linkedin: andreabollini orcid: 0000-0002-9029-1854 an Itway Group Company Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Qatar, U.A.Emirates -- This message has been checked by Libra ESVA and is believed to be clean. -- Questo messaggio e' stato analizzato con Libra ESVA ed e' risultato non infetto. Clicca qui per segnalarlo come spam.<http://esva1.business-e.it/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id=EDD6641212.AF643> -- Andrea Bollini Chief Technology and Innovation Officer 4Science, www.4science.it<http://www.4science.it> office: Via Edoardo D'Onofrio 304, 00155 Roma, Italy mobile: +39 333 934 1808 skype: a.bollini linkedin: andreabollini orcid: 0000-0002-9029-1854 an Itway Group Company Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Qatar, U.A.Emirates -- Questo messaggio e' stato analizzato da Libra ESVA ed e' risultato non infetto. This message was scanned by Libra ESVA and is believed to be clean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.