Records with Relator Term Duplicate Author Type in Summary.tt2

[John Yorio]

This was observed in 2.9.1:

Records cataloged according to RDA rules, with a 100 $e of author, such as:
‡aRendell, Ruth, ‡d1930-2015, ‡eauthor.

Display as follows on summary.tt2:
Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015 author. (Author).

Ideally, it would display "author" or "Author" but not both.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/958954 seemed like it might be related but I'll be honest, I had trouble following what was being described by that bug.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Although it isn't mentioned in the bug description or comments, the code that was contributed with bug 1308090 fixes this problem. It will be available when you upgrade to 2.12. Alternatively, I think if you just make the authors.tt2 adjustments from http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=fd7f90415ab5302c32b0a70550d7e5d16b03e73b , it should fix the issue.

[Meg Stroup (mstroup)]

The presence of the $e relator does affect display in the OPAC. It also affects search results for a given author.

I am taking this example from our catalog:

The author Catherine Coulter appears as two separate authors:
100 1_$aCoulter, Catherine,$eauthor. (RDA) and
100 1_$aCoulter, Catherine. (AACR2)

Both give the authorized name for this author. Both 100 lines are cataloged correctly, but they are following two different rule systems. Evergreen returns 273 records for RDA-Coulter and 70 for AACR2-Coulter (OPAC, search results, "personal" column).

From a cataloging perspective, it affects authority control and cataloging consistency.