Ticket #1278 (closed enhancement: wontfix)
Google Scholar: change author list format in extended feed
| Reported by: | russ | Owned by: | npeterson |
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| Priority: | unassigned | Milestone: | 0.9.3_rc2 |
| Component: | ambra | Version: | 0.9.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
currently, in the extended feed, we list all authors like so:
<author><name>Haiyan Jiang</name></author> <author><name>Andrew Orr</name></author> ...
however, google scholar would like given name, last name, and suffix separated in their metadata feed.
since we can't reconstruct the separation (sometimes last name has two or more words), we need to change our extended feed to preserve the separation of names in the author list.
here's the format GS needs, which is a snippet of nlm-dtd XML, and would be fine to mimic if there's no reason not to:
<contrib-group> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name> <surname>Smith</surname> <given-names>John S.D.</given-names> <suffix>Jr</suffix> </name> </contrib> </contrib-group>
i believe that we are currently pulling the full name from the citation object attached to the article. however, the separate names are also stored in the citation object, so i'm hoping this change is not terribly difficult
