Intro

Element: <name>

Definition: The name of a person, organization, or event (conference, meeting, etc.) associated in some way with the resource.

Attributes: type, authority, authorityURI, valueURI, usage, displayLabel, nameTitleGroup, altRepGroup, xlink, ID, lang, xml:lang, script, transliteration, etal

Subelements: <namePart>, <displayForm>, <affiliation>, <role>, <description>, <etal>, <nameIdentifier>

Indexing

Fields Created

• name - multivalued, indexed
  Looks at all namepart sub-element.
  If the attribute @type!="date" then use the text of the subelement

• contributor - a multivalued, indexed field
  Looks at the role and roleterm sub-elements of the name.
  If the roleterm!=creator:
  The value is the namepart.

• contributor_display - a multivalued, indexed field
  Combines the namepart roleterm and date=namepart with @type="date" in the following way
  namepart[, date][ (roleterm)]
  where [] denotes an optional component

• creator - a multivalued, indexed field
  Looks at the role and roleterm sub-elements of the name.
  If the roleterm==creator:
  The value is the namepart.

• mods_role_ssim - a multivalued, indexed field
  Looks at the roleterm and adds the first roleterm for a given name to the list of roles availible for this document

• mods_role_*_ssim - a multivalued, indexed field
  The * in this field is the first roleterm associated with the name. The value is the namepart.

• mods_name_place_ssim - a multivalued, indexed field
  If the name has a roleterm and the roleterm ends with " place". The value is the namepart.

• mods_name_nonplace_ssim - a multivalued, indexed field
  If the name does not have a roleterm OR If the name has a roleterm and the roleterm DOES NOT end with " place". The value is the namepart.

Notes for future

• The @type attribute on the name is not used. This could provide good information.
• Only the first namepart is ever used.
• For mods_role_ssim, only the first roleterm is used

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