Seeking guidance on how to set up people entities

[Genny Jon_York]

Hi everyone, 

We would love some info on what overall steps are required to plan for Person and other entities. 

We are most interested in implementing Person entities to start. Some preliminary questions:

1. Is there a way to populate existing author records into Person entities?
2. Duplicate author entries 
   • collapse/combine before implementing?
   • can they be deleted/combined after implementation?
3. Other metadata clean up recommendations before proceeding?

Once implemented, would we need to create a Person entity record for each new author prior to creating a new publication record? 

• Are Person entities required for all authors, even external collaborators?
• Recommendations for handling Person entities for self-submitted records that dspace administrators may never see?

Many thanks for any info/tips experience you can share.

Best,

Genny Jon, York University, Toronto

[DSpace Technical Support]

I wanted to briefly note that Genny's good questions were all answered on the dspace-community list by Fatih:

https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/RtGTkv8LGjc

(This is just a cross reference for folks who have these same questions)

Tim