Created: August 27, 2018
Revised: April 4, 2022
Return metadata about an author. You may choose to include a list of the author's publications. The BHLType element identifies the type of each publication (Title or Part).
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/api3?op=GetAuthorMetadata
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