augment_author: Augment Author Info

In rOpenGov/bibliographica: Bibliographic Data Analysis

Augment Author Info

Description

Estimate missing entries in author info.

Usage

augment_author(df, life_info = NULL, ambiguous_authors = NULL)

Arguments

df	data.frame with author_birth, author_death and author_name
life_info	Additional author life years info table
ambiguous_authors	Author synonyme table

Details

Augments author life years (author_birth and author_death) based on information from other entries of the same author where the info is available. Also supports manually provided information tables. Adds author_unique field which combines full author name and life years to provide a unique author identifier. Finally harmonizes ambiguous author names based on synonyme table.

Value

Augmented data.frame

Author(s)

Leo Lahti [e-mail]

References

See citation("bibliographica")

Examples

# augment_author_life(df)

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