Contributors

Expectations:

• Users expect search to locate works by or about a person/organisation

• Users expect search results to return a list of contributor with an exact or close-enough name match

• Users expect works by that contributor to be grouped together

• Users expect search text with the exact name of an author should return their works or works they have contributed towards as first results

• Where there are multiple contributors with similar names, creation date may be used as secondary criteria to disambiguate, but this doesn’t cover cases where a work was published posthumously

• Inclusion of titles, honorifics and middle names/initials can pose problems when we’re tuning for precision over recall

Examples:

• Frederic Cayley Robinson

• Levasseur

• Ursula Philip

• Royal Astronomical Society

• A K JOHNSON