The QUT ePrints implementation uses an internal ‘id’ field on creators, editors, and supervisors which is managed by us, and takes the form of a canonical name. For example, my id is always “Kerwin, Matty”, which encodes to https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Kerwin,_Matty.html

That way we can do things like “Khan, Maria” and “Khan, Maria Hameed” as two different people, and they get two different pages.

The details of exactly how it was set up are lost to history, but it’s basically just another field on the person-type objects, and custom view configurations. Our “person” view combined creators_id and editors_id, and there’s a separate supervisors view that uses supervisors_id.

Cheers

Hi Abid,

Having one browse view page for the same name will happen.  You can create a creators ID browse view instead.  This will mean you get different URLs as the last part will be whatever value you are using for your creators ID in the eprint workflow (typically email address).  However the ID is exposed in the URL.  Here is a similar example, although it is using a secondary "internal" ID:

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Using_Internal_IDs_for_Staff_Browse_Views#Create_Browse_View_based_on_Internal_IDs

You might change it to something like:

push @{ $c->{browse_views} }, (

{

  id => "creators_id",

  allow_null => 0,

  hideempty => 1,

  menus => [

    {

      fields => [ "creators_id", "contributors_id", "editors_id"  ],

      new_column_at => [1, 1],

      mode => "sections",

      open_first_section => 1,

      group_range_function => "EPrints::Update::Views::cluster_ranges_30",

      grouping_function => "EPrints::Update::Views::group_by_a_to_z",

    },

  ],

  order => "-date/title",

  variations => [

    "type",

    "date;truncate=4,reverse",

    "DEFAULT",

  ],

});

If you don't want the ID to be in the URL I believe you can hash this but I cannot remember how to do this right now.   Also, the page you get will only display the ID of the creator and not their actual name, which may or may not be encoded in their ID (e.g. Joe Bloggs may have the email address Joe.Bloggs@example.org).  

This is something we are trying to improve with the concept of entities in the upcoming 3.5.  However, we have not yet got round to making browse views for things like creators using these entities, which would be able to separate out to creators with the same name.

Regards

David Newman

Regards

David Newman

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Dear Team,

I would like to report an issue with the Creator View page in EPrints.

We have identified a case where two different authors have the same forename and surname, but they belong to different departments and are different individuals. However, EPrints is indexing publications from both authors under a single creator page.

For example:
https://pure.jgu.edu.in/view/creators/Subramanian=3AVidya=3A=3A.html

the last two article one is book review and one the last article are belong to the different individual

As a result, publications belonging to two separate authors are being displayed on the same profile page, which leads to incorrect author attribution and confusion.

Could you please advise whether there is a configuration or solution to distinguish authors with identical names, such as using departmental affiliation, author ID, ORCID, or another unique identifier to generate separate creator pages?

We would appreciate your guidance on how to resolve this issue.

Thank you for your assistance.

Best Regards,
Abid Fakhre Alam