VIAF name matching should exclude related persons

[ChristianeKlaes]

Hi,

when reconciling against VIAF I frequently get candidates pointing to related persons of the actual person to be reconciled.
For example, VIAF stores co-authors in the MARC field 950 (see https://viaf.org/viaf/viaftags.xml#mrca950), and this field seems to be one of the sources for candidate retrieval. Naturally, these candidates only get very low scores, but it can be distracting and costly during validation (because in OpenRefine you can't immediately judge whether a candidate name is the same person's pseudonym, or birth name, or an entirely different person that is simply someone's co-author).

Is it possible to exclude MARC field 950 from the matching code?

Thanks and many regards,

Christiane