[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Normalizing full stops in personal author names

[Josh Stompro]

Hello Sarah, Kathy Lussier pointed me to the existing bug and fix for the issue I described.  Looks like it was included in 2.12.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1308090

It looks like it does follow the logic that you described, space then single letter then period, the period is kept.

Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Childs
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2018 1:41 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Normalizing full stops in personal author names

With the second approach, can it be a space and a single letter, regardless of case?  In at least one example (k.d. lang), the authorized version is in lowercase, and there are probably others.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org<mailto:stomproj at exchange.larl.org>> wrote:
Hello, I’m curious what the correct approach is for dealing with multiple entries in the browse and facet lists, when the difference is just the ending period/full stop.

For example, Some of the records have
=100 1\$aAdler-Olsen, Jussi,$eauthor.
And some have
=100 1\$aAdler-Olsen, Jussi.

This results in two facet lines and two browse lines for the same author.

Is the correct approach to normalize the data?

Or would an index normalizer be appropriate here, something to remove periods when they are not preceded by a space and a single capital letter?
Something like “r/([^ ][^A-Z])(\.)$/$1/”

Thanks

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