Ability to batch edit author affiliations
We need a way to improve existing affiliations in assets to both add and cleanup affiliations that do not match with EROD. These affiliations will be more and more important with collaboration reports
Wendy Robertson
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Wendy Robertson
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We need an efficient way to update affiliations for non-local people. A job was introduced in July 2024 (to be fixed in March 2025) to update local people's affiliations. However, this will not help correct affiliations for non-local co-authors. In some cases, it might be best to remove all the data, which can now (Feb 2025) be done asset by asset but not in a batch. In other cases it might be beneficial to update the affiliations en masse by pulling in just the affiliation data again, using smart harvest type functionality (this is somewhat available asset by asset, but the option to only update affiliations and to not touch the rest of the data is not there, which means we need to carefully check that correct data was not over written). Another approach would be a batch revise via csv where we could correct the affiliation, perhaps by adding a ROR. More recent content is not as problematic, but content added several years ago can be very messy which will make any reports about collaboration across institutions less useful until the data is cleaned up. A CSV change would be ideal, especially if we could also remove affiliations in this process