Re: [Refdb-devel] Re: bib2ris spaces in author/editor names

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi Damien,

Damien Jade Duff writes:
 > > I'm still contemplating. It seems more practical to associate the contact info
 > > with an author rather than with a reference, but what if an author moves (which
 > > isn't that rare, believe me :-( ). We'd need another table that holds all
 > > contacts for a particular author and store the information which contact
 > > applies in the reference.
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > Gosh, it seems complicated. Not really the kind of sophistication you'd 
 > expect in a reference database really.
 > 
 > Optimally you'd want to chuck it into your contact database, whatever 
 > that is, and throw a link into your reference author I suppose, but now 
 > we're talking 3rd party interfaces... now we're talking crazy talk.
 > 

I just recalled that the contact information given in a reference is
not always associated with the first author of a paper. This makes it
impossible to store the contact info with the author name, as
electronic references do not record which author the contact info
belongs to. The contact info has to stay with the reference, just as
it has done so far.

regards,
Markus

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