+++ date = "2016-10-03T15:53:00+03:00" author = "Alan Orth" title = "October, 2016" tags = ["Notes"]

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2016-10-03

• Testing adding ORCIDs to a CSV file for a single item to see if the author orders get messed up
• Need to test the following scenarios to see how author order is affected:
  • ORCIDs only
  • ORCIDs plus normal authors
• I exported a random item's metadata as CSV, deleted all columns except id and collection, and made a new coloum called ORCID:dc.contributor.author with the following random ORCIDs from the ORCID registry:

0000-0002-6115-0956||0000-0002-3812-8793||0000-0001-7462-405X

• Hmm, with the dc.contributor.author column removed, DSpace doesn't detect any changes
• With a blank dc.contributor.author column, DSpace wants to remove all non-ORCID authors and add the new ORCID authors
• I added the disclaimer text to the About page, then added a footer link to the disclaimer's ID, but there is a Bootstrap issue that causes the page content to disappear when using in-page anchors: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/1768

• Looks like we'll just have to add the text to the About page (without a link) or add a separate page

2016-10-04

• Start testing cleanups of authors that Peter sent last week
• Out of 40,000+ rows, Peter had indicated corrections for ~3,200 of them—too many to look through carefully, so I did some basic quality checking:
  • Trim leading/trailing whitespace
  • Find invalid characters
  • Cluster values to merge obvious authors
• That left us with 3,180 valid corrections and 3 deletions:

$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i authors-fix-3180.csv -f dc.contributor.author -t correct -m 3 -d dspacetest -u dspacetest -p fuuu
$ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i authors-delete-3.csv -f dc.contributor.author -m 3 -d dspacetest -u dspacetest -p fuuu

• Remove old about page (#284)