Best way to fix an author name?
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1bnielsen
https://www.librarything.com/author/mlleranders-1
This lists the author name as Anders Mller, but his name is really Anders Møller. What's the recommended way of fixing it?
This lists the author name as Anders Mller, but his name is really Anders Møller. What's the recommended way of fixing it?
2MarthaJeanne
To begin with, Mller is the way most members have it in their entries. You can change the primary author on the most frequent work and/or canonical author. The problem with the first is that it separates the author page from the author listed by members.
I confirmed Møller as an Other Author, and we could alias Mller1 to that author page if splitting were working. https://www.librarything.com/author/moslashlleranders needs splitting, too, I think.
I confirmed Møller as an Other Author, and we could alias Mller1 to that author page if splitting were working. https://www.librarything.com/author/moslashlleranders needs splitting, too, I think.
3bnielsen
>2 MarthaJeanne: Thanks. I'll just leave it be for the moment.
In case anyone wonder why I care about Mller / Møller:
I came across Mller because I have an old project with creating a choropleth based on my authors nationality. It goes back several years. The simple idea is:
map primary author on all my books to iso 3166 numeric codes, i.e. Anders Møller is Danish, so he gets the code 208
count the numbers for all codes and decide on a color to go with the count
A simple version: Black if count is non-zero, otherwise White
use some package in some programming language to color some standard map
i.e. the package should have some polygons for each code and the polygons for 208 should look like Denmark :-)
This runs into a lot of problems, but LT has help for some of them.
#1: Some of my authors have more than one name, like Sissel-Jo Gazan and Sissel-Jo Reid Gazan
#2: I can find nationalities on https://www.librarything.com/stats/bnielsen/nationality but not for all authors
#3: Author names on librarything.com/stats/bnielsen/nationality are sometimes not what I expect, i.e. Mller / Møller
So far I've ended up with a hand edited list, grouping authors by nationality - starting with the LT list and fixing errors and adding authors with multiple names.
I plan on using R with this package and hope it won't get obsoleted before I'm done. (A very real problem with R, IMHO)
https://r-graph-gallery.com/choropleth-map-in-r.html
Link to an older discussion about this:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/189257
In case anyone wonder why I care about Mller / Møller:
I came across Mller because I have an old project with creating a choropleth based on my authors nationality. It goes back several years. The simple idea is:
map primary author on all my books to iso 3166 numeric codes, i.e. Anders Møller is Danish, so he gets the code 208
count the numbers for all codes and decide on a color to go with the count
A simple version: Black if count is non-zero, otherwise White
use some package in some programming language to color some standard map
i.e. the package should have some polygons for each code and the polygons for 208 should look like Denmark :-)
This runs into a lot of problems, but LT has help for some of them.
#1: Some of my authors have more than one name, like Sissel-Jo Gazan and Sissel-Jo Reid Gazan
#2: I can find nationalities on https://www.librarything.com/stats/bnielsen/nationality but not for all authors
#3: Author names on librarything.com/stats/bnielsen/nationality are sometimes not what I expect, i.e. Mller / Møller
So far I've ended up with a hand edited list, grouping authors by nationality - starting with the LT list and fixing errors and adding authors with multiple names.
I plan on using R with this package and hope it won't get obsoleted before I'm done. (A very real problem with R, IMHO)
https://r-graph-gallery.com/choropleth-map-in-r.html
Link to an older discussion about this:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/189257
