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PublicationPublisherAuthorities
Publication and Publisher authority control (DRAFT ONLY)
Publication / Publisher Authorities
We'll start with the simple case. For Publications and Publishers, we collect every string variant of their names:
Note: It's probably a very good idea to compare based on a cleaned version of the authority values, to eliminate matches missed because of capitalization and punctuation. Things of the form "American Institute of Physics" to "americaninstituteofphysics":
name.gsub!(/[^A-Za-z0-9]+/, '').downcase!
Publisher Example
- American Institute of Physics
- AMER INST PHYSICS
- American Institute of Physics Inc
- AIP
- American Institute of Physics Inc., Melville, NY 11747-4502, United States
- American Institute of Physics Inc., Woodbury, NY, USA
- American Inst of Physics, Woodbury, NY, USA
- American Institute of Physics Inc., Melville, United States
Each Publisher record contains an "authority_id" field, where we can self-join to the chosen authority record. In the case above, "American Institute of Physics" is the chosen authority record, so each record below can reference #1 in their authority_id field.
The same simple technique can be applied to Publication records.
Publication Example
- Acta Astronaut. | 0094-5765
- Acta Astronaut. (UK) | 0094-5765
- Acta Astronautica | 0094-5765
Here "Acta Astronautica" is the chosen authority record, so each record above #3 can reference #3 in their authority_id field.
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