[Dspace-general] Multiple Authors Question

[Ingrid Mason]

Hi Stephen,

We take a simple approach.  

We add all authors that are listed on the work (as they appear on the
work) and we don't enter them in any particular order.  The assumption
being that 1 or >1 of the authors is from Victoria University of
Wellington and any presentation information and ordering of names and
affiliation is likely to be embedded in the work.  

We were just talking about organisational affiliations this morning and
the Names* project being undertaken by JISC in the UK.  We have avoided
including this information in the metadata schema.  That is not to say
name ordering and organisational affiliation and presentation are not
useful metadata and good ideas - they are - we are just keeping up
metadata levels and complexity of workflow down.

Hope this sheds some useful light.

Regards, Ingrid 


Ingrid Mason
Digital Research Repository Coordinator
ResearchArchive at Victoria 
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand = Aotearoa

*
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sharedservices/names.a
spx 

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[mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Westman, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 7:28 a.m.
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] Multiple Authors Question

My apologies if this question has already been answered, but I have been
unable to find any place where that has happened.

We are in the process of setting up a DSpace instance here at UNC
Charlotte and have run into a cataloging questions.  Specifically, we
have several articles in which the UNC Charlotte author a) is not at the
top of the list of authors and b) the list includes several authors not
affiliated with our institution.

My question is how other libraries handle this situation.  Do you only
enter the name of the author from your institution into the Author field
and add the other names to another field?  Do you enter them all in as
authors?  If so, do you include notes indicating where the other authors
are located?  How do you handle copyright questions where multiple
authors are involved?

Any help that you could provide would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance!

Stephen R. Westman
Digital Information Services Librarian
J. Murrey Atkins Library
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
(704) 687-6818 (phone)
(704) 687-2682 (FAX)


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