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Introduction

The browse and discovery item listings are currently the only place where specific items were listed for selected authors. This author profile feature proposal delivers more context and recognition for authors, associated with items in DSpace. 

The author profile functionality operates independently from the DSpace "EPerson" account system. An author profile is a page that showcases the author’s biography and provides links to content that the author contributed toadministrator can create author profiles for any author that is referenced on items in the repository, regardless of whether they are registered users in the system.

This feature allows repository managers to raise the profile for specific authors and differentiate between institutional authors and external authors. 

Features 

• A web user interface where administrators can create, update and delete author profiles 
• Author profiles can be created for any author appearing in the DSpace metadata, it is not bound to EPeople (user accounts). 
• A separate entry in the public DSpace navigation "View author profiles" that lists the created author profiles. This is parallel to the existing "browse by authors". Browse by authors will still show all metadata entries for authors, while the "view author profiles" only lists those authors for which a profile has been created. 
• An icon that shows up in the Discovery author facet to give users easy access to author profiles when searching 
• SEO friendly page URL that includes the author's name.

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Use case and high level benefits

Describe which need the contribution is fulfilling and why it was originally created. Screenshots are always nice and will make people enthusiastic about your contribution.

Installation

Increasing recognition attributed to authors

By providing an author profile, authors can be better recognized for their contributions to the repository. 

Administrator centric management of author profiles

This feature does not require or demand the actual author to manage and compile his or her own profile. In this way, faculty are not burdened with the creation of this profile. 

Associating name variations in publication metadata with the same person

Researcher's names may change throughout their careers. Furthermore, author names are not always referenced correctly in publication metadata.

This feature allows different occurrences of an author's name to be associated with the same author profile. In this way, the author can still be listed on the item as he or she was originally listed in the publisher's metadata, while still clearing up the name confusion towards repository visitors who prefer to see the entire list of an author's publications.

Author profiles can be established in a private space before making them public

The author profile only becomes publicly available when the administrator decides to flag it as public.

Installation

The goal is to have author profiles enabled by default after DSpace is installed or upgraded. No specific installation procedures or actions need to be taken in order to activate the feature.

Working with author profiles

Creating an author profile

When logged in as administrator the "Create new author profile" link becomes available in the sidebar. This link directs the administrator to the 'Create new author profile' page, displayed below. The semantics of each field are explained on the page. The fields 'Last name', 'First name', 'Author values used for finding records' and 'Email address' are required. The other fields are optional by default (this can always be changed in the configuration).

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Author profiles can be reached by clicking on the author icon located next to the author's name. Non administrative users will only have access to the public profiles. An administrator can edit an author profile by navigation browsing to the author profile and clicking the "Edit this author profile" link. 

When an administrator is editing an authors author's profile, a link will be added on top of the page that will allow the administrator to view the profile with the changes he made (unsaved changes will be lost).

Deleting an author profile

When logged in as administrator go to the edit page of an author profile, at the bottom below the save button there will be link with which you can delete an , you'll find a link in the bottom of the 'Edit' page (above the "Save author profile" button) allowing you to delete the author profile.

Displaying author profiles

 Author profile "home" page

The main view displaying an author profile is shown below, it . It displays not only the author's profile but also all submissions in which the person was his submissions (as author or coauthor).

Author profile browse page

The browse "Browse by author profiles" link is available in the Browse sidebar. The browse 'Browse by author profile' view offers all available author profiles. Private author profiles will only be displayed if the logged in user belongs to the Administrative group.

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When the sidebar facets are displayed the author profile icons are displayed next to the authors that who have an author profile.

Technical Implementation Details

DSpace core model changes

Before author profiles the The standard DSpace domain (DSpace Objects) consisted of contains the following objects: Community Community, Collection, Item, Bundle, Bitstream (a file), Group & EPerson. All these core domain objects have metadata Metadata and authorization policies can be linked attributed to all of these objects.

By creating a new DSpace Object class "AuthorProfile we could keep ", we sticked to that standard architecture, and kept the author profile table very lightweight. The That table author profile only contains an identifier, this identifier is then used to link to authorizations policies & metadatathe author profile to metadata and authorization policies. An additional database table is used was created to link the author profile picture to a bitstream. 

Configuration

The fields which can be entered in the edit 'Edit profile' page can be edited in the dspace.dir/config/spring/author-profile-edit-page.xml file. This configuration file allows you to indicate which fields are required, repeatable, add new fields, ...

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