Bug 6879

Summary:	Reconsider Author/User name fields (combine to one field or at least into two)
Product:	OJS	Reporter:	Juan Pablo Alperin <juan>
Component:	General	Assignee:	PKP Support <pkp-support>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	alec, jean-andre.santoni, jmacgreg
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
Version Reported In:		Also Affects:	OCS 2.3.x, OMP 1.0

Description Juan Pablo Alperin 2011-09-08 20:56:57 PDT

The First/Middle/Last name fields do not apply across cultures. There is a good summary of different names formats and some suggestions on how to implement a more inclusive name form at: 
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

Review this list and consider applying some of the suggestions to all our software. The obvious concern is: how does this impact the metadata formats we must export into (i.e. do they require the split fields?)

Comment 1 Jean-André Santoni 2011-11-09 02:46:08 PST

I agree with Juan Pablo Alperin.

Our users reports bugs about the default search field being the firstname. They would prefer it to be the lastname.

Having a global name field would solve this too.

Comment 2 James MacGregor 2012-01-24 22:48:22 PST

See http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8215&start=0 for discussion on Indonesian authors who only have a single name.