Comment 17 for bug 1177810

In regards to the question on the 'creator' issue, we've started a discussion locally about the need for using the "creator" term at all and about whether we need to separate the creator links from other links where the author is an added entry. I can't say we have a firm consensus here yet, but previous discussions on this same topic have resulted in the opinion that, in the above example, there would be one Ayn Rand entry that would lead to a list that includes titles where she is the creator and those where she is an added entry author.

Like I said, I haven't heard enough from my own people to say this is definitely what we would like to see, but I just wanted to mention it before much more work is done to adjust the "creator" display.

I believe the third entry for Ayn Rand is there because there is a period at the end of her name. It would be great if there were a way to somehow collapse those entries where the only difference is a trailing period or a forward slash. I've seen several other examples of those. Also, is there a way to make this case insensitive so that matching titles that only differ in case are collapsed into one entry? You can see an example of this with the assistant at http://jasondev.mvlcstaff.org/eg/opac/browse?blimit=10&qtype=title&bterm=assistant&locg=1.

Thanks!
Kathy