Upgrade StorageFeature suggestion: represent authors as entities
Currently authors are saved just as plain text in author fields, and there is no way (without custom scripting) to consolidate articles from the same author in which the author is spelled differently, is missing an initial, etc.
Other tools such as Google Scholar have entities for authors, not just items, and items are linked to authors. Nowadays we also have orcid IDs.
A neat solution and long-term nice feature would be to have a database of authors, not just items, and these authors can have links to online profiles, orcid IDs, google scholar, but can also have multiple aliases. Then we can link author fields in articles to author entities.
Other tools such as Google Scholar have entities for authors, not just items, and items are linked to authors. Nowadays we also have orcid IDs.
A neat solution and long-term nice feature would be to have a database of authors, not just items, and these authors can have links to online profiles, orcid IDs, google scholar, but can also have multiple aliases. Then we can link author fields in articles to author entities.