====== Author Fields: Populations and Purposes ======

This is Naomi Dushay's best attempt to understand the title fields in VuFind as of 2008-08-11. It is not guaranteed to be correct, nor up to date. It is shared here in the hopes it may be useful to others. 

^ Field Name ^ Function ^ Traits ^ Current Algorithm ^
| **author** | search: \\ default \\ fielded author \\ getMoreLikeThis \\ \\ Display: search results | tokenized, stopwords,\\ stemmed, case folded\\ \\ stored | 100 a, b, c, d |
| **authorStr** | facet (search results) \\ sort search results by author \\ "get similar search terms" for author search \\ author view - get subjects by author \\ "Browse" view - browse by author | not tokenized \\ \\ stored | same as author field |
| **author-letter** | facet by author: "Browse" view only | not tokenized\\ \\ stored | 100a first char |
| **author2** | search: \\ default \\ fielded author | tokenized, stopwords,\\ stemmed, case folded\\ \\ multivalued\\ \\ stored | 700 a, b, c, d |
| **author2Str** | Author view - get subjects by author | not tokenized\\ \\ multivalued\\ \\ stored | same as author2 |
| | Item view - Main Author | | 100 a, b, c, d |
| | Item view - Other Authors | | 700 a, b, c, d |
| | Item view - Corporate Author | | 110a |
| | Citation | | 100a, 700a |
| **auth_author** | not used yet | tokenized, stopwords,\\ stemmed, case folded\\ \\ stored | same as author field |
| **auth_authorStr** | not used yet | not tokenized\\ \\ stored | same as author field |
| **auth_author2** | not used yet | tokenized, stopwords,\\ stemmed, case folded\\ \\ stored | 700 a, b, c, d |
| **auth_author2Str** | not used yet | not tokenized\\ \\ not stored | same as author2 field |
| **author2-role** | not used yet | tokenized, stopwords,\\ stemmed, case folded\\ \\ multivalued\\ \\ stored | 700e |