On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Thomas Krichel wrote:
'Christian Zimmermann' writes
Additional point: say affiliation A is Dept X, School Y, University Z B is School Y, University Z C is Think Tank W
then it must always be that B>=A, and B+C=100. The reason is that A is part of B.
Do you want to enforce this at the point of data entry? I don't think ACIS reads a relational structure of institutions at this time. So this would require changes at the back end. This would also have an effect on searches as well.
Not sure. This can be enforced only on this page, as the name string of B is a substring of A. In any case, there are going to be imperfections. For example, when an Economics Department moves out of a Business School, the constraint above suddenly is not valid when I modify the institutional record, without the author visiting the profile. I guess this is sufficiently rare to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel
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