The starting metadata uses the standard library "an author is just a standardized string" form of author identification, but it would be useful if we could do better.
We should:
clean and dedupe the author strings (there are bunch that appear multiple times in different forms)
reconcile the names to one or more sources of strong identifiers such as Wikidata, VIAF, or OpenLibrary
The starting metadata uses the standard library "an author is just a standardized string" form of author identification, but it would be useful if we could do better.
We should: