Whether an author exists already can only be checked if the ORCID ID is provided in CRAN.
If no ORCID ID is provided, duplicate entities shall be created for each name, i.e. only checking whether an author exists by comparing the name of existing entities is not sufficient.
This will result in multiple duplicate entities for each author (since several authors have published >1 packages).
Explore whether a better solution is possible to avoid duplicates.
eloiferrer
commented
2 years ago
Whether an author exists already can only be checked if the ORCID ID is provided in CRAN. If no ORCID ID is provided, duplicate entities shall be created for each name, i.e. only checking whether an author exists by comparing the name of existing entities is not sufficient. This will result in multiple duplicate entities for each author (since several authors have published >1 packages). Explore whether a better solution is possible to avoid duplicates.