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About a year ago, I put in a JIRA ticket to ask how we should model co-author affiliation:
https://issues.library.cornell.edu/browse/VIVOONT-444 (moved to DuraSpace JIRA VIVOONT-5)

• At some point (later this year probably), we will need to represent our affiliations of non-WCMC co-authors in VIVO.
  Naturally, we do not have an authoritative source for this data. What we do have is an assertion from Scopus that at the time the paper was published, a given author had a reported affiliation. 
  This really complicates the standard way for representing people and appointments. I'm not sure we can assume that someone whose affiliation was the same in 2006 and 2008, had that same affiliation in 2007. Or, that a person who had affiliation A in 2008 ceased to have that affiliation if that person had a different affiliation in 2009. This person could have dual affiliations!
  How can we assert affiliation without causing a mess?

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• so much variation in how people list their affiliation – will there be confidence in the identification of the organizations? Paul is primarily interested in querying the changes in affiliation for an author, both for disambiguation.  Also wants to flag any document where there's no Weill Cornell affiliation, either because it predates when someone was working at Weill for some other reason. 
• will the VCard be ready for 1.6? some trickiness because the VCard spec is changing in a W3C and it's not clear even what namespace it will use. We at least know we want a structured set of strings linked to an authorship that can accommodate name parts, affiliation information, and potentially an institutional identifier.

Review and prioritization of changes for VIVO 1.6

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