Publication 'Publisher' as a related Contributor

[justgo129]

Migrate the values of the publication "publisher" field into that for the "publisher" as a "contributor" field for books (i.e., move value of "publisher" in "books" to that of "publisher" in "contributors"). Ignore where this has been done automatically.

Note: the subject of the level of granularity for publishers and the addressing of the various changes in the publisher market (e.g. Wiley or Elsevier has many divisions) is topic for discussion.

[rewolfe]

Example of the publisher linked through a relationship (the way we would like this to be): http://data.globalchange.gov/book/03826610-743d-4e51-a08e-8fe8d294fa83

[lomky]

So, instead of having the publisher in the column of the publication table, we want the publisher to exist as a contributor and relate it properly.

Good candidate for a scriptable fix.

We want to remove the publisher field from the table after migration is complete.

[lomky]

This is done! #548 #549 #553