Issue #3036. Change author metadata towards merging two profiles for …

[pruizf]

The problem is described in issue #3036. Two profiles were created for me. Is it possible to merge them towards the newer one?

These are the profiles:

• https://aclanthology.org/people/p/pablo-ruiz-fabo/ (new one, with only one paper in 2022)
• https://aclanthology.org/people/p/pablo-ruiz/ (older one, with 6 papers between 2014 and 2017)

It can be seen at ORCID that it's the same person https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4349-4835), or at my university site (https://lilpa.unistra.fr/theme-1-lexiques-discours-et-transpositions/membres/enseignants-chercheurs/ruiz-fabo-pablo/), which should be pulling publications automatically from the French national open repository (https://cv.hal.science/pabloruizfabo).

Would it be possible to merge both profiles towards the newer one? Even if it has one paper only, it mentions both my last names. In papers since 2016, I wrote both last names for the author name on the PDF, but only one last name on the PDF in 2014 and 2015.

So I have 3 papers with "Pablo Ruiz Fabo" as author on the PDF and 4 papers with "Pablo Ruiz" as author on the PDF. The e-mail addresses do mention both my last names in all papers but the oldest one.

Going forward I will write my name using the long version with two last names, which is why I suggest to merge towards the newer profile even if it now has less papers than the other profile.

I tried to make the change in this PR, looking at similar issues on profile merging. Could you please advise if it's OK?

Thanks a lot for your time

[akoehn]

Looks good to me, but you will be able to check this once the preview is ready. I enabled the preview generation for this pr.

[akoehn]

Ah, my bad. The preview is only triggered for internal PRs. Compiling it locally should show whether everything works as expected but I'm on mobile right now.

[pruizf]

Thank you for the quick answer! I'll look forward to whether it builds correctly.

[mjpost]

This is possible, and thanks for the PR! However, can you please remove the id: key from the name variants file, and the id= attribute from the XML? That's only needed when the same name is used by two different people. Your situation (where the same person uses multiple names) is simpler, and will be handled just by creating the name variant.

Once you do this, I'll merge it and it will be live.

(The reason to remove the ID is because once it's in there, we have to add it for all future papers, which slightly complicates the ingestion at the moment).

[mjpost]

One other thing: We take the PDF as the "ground truth". This means that if your name is "Pablo Ruiz" in the PDF, please leave it that way in the metadata. The papers will all be joined under the same canonical variant of your name due to the entry in the name variants file.

[pruizf]

Thanks a lot for the quick response and detailed explanation. I removed the id: key from the yaml and the id attributes in the metadata XML. And the last names in the XML match the PDF.

[mjpost]

Done. Should be live in about a half hour: https://aclanthology.org/people/pablo-ruiz-fabo

[pruizf]

Thanks!