The Hub sounds to me like a private Semantic Web - a bounded service
where we name entities and trade information about named entities.
Every new proposal such as this to "uniquely identify entities" just
seems to set up yet another identity in competition with all the other
unique identities that we have. Surely the appropriate way to go
forward is for repositories to start by locally choosing a scheme for
identifying individuals (I suggest coining a URI that is grounded in
some aspect of the institution's processes). If we can export
consistently referenced individuals, then global services can worry
about "equivalence mechanisms" to collect together all the various
forms of reference that .
This is the approach taken by the Resist Knowledgebase, which is the
foundation for the (just started) dotAC JISC Rapid Innovation project.
For information on this approach see the powerpoint presentation (with
soundtrack) "RKBExplorer: Repositories, Linked Data and Research
Support " that was presented at the EPrints User Group at OR09. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17373/
. Also, the paper "URI Identity Management for Semantic Web Data
Integration and Linkage" at http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14361/
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Les Carr
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:54, Chris Rusbridge wrote:
> Is the following at all relevant?
>
>> Networking Names report now available
>>
>> The fifteen members of the RLG Partners Networking Names Advisory
>> Group have articulated the problem space that the research
>> community needs to address and the necessary components for a
>> "Cooperative Identities Hub" that would have the most impact across
>> different target audiences. The group developed fourteen use case
>> scenarios around academic libraries and scholars, archivists and
>> archival users, and institutional repositories that provide the
>> context in which different communities would benefit from
>> aggregating information about persons and organizations, corporate
>> and government bodies, and families, and making it available on a
>> network level.
>>
>> Check out the just published Networking Names report that
>> summarizes the group's recommendations on the functions and
>> attributes needed to support the use case scenarios, and send your
>> reactions and comments to Karen Smith-Yoshimura.
>>
>> See http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-05.pdf
>> for the Networking names report.
>
>
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>
> On 1 Jul 2009, at 15:05, Amanda Hill wrote:
>
>> Dear Hannah
>>
>> The Names Project is developing its prototype service into a more
>> comprehensive pilot which should (in the longer term!) be able to
>> help with
>> the situation you describe. Individuals are assigned a unique
>> identifier and
>> alternative forms of their names are associated with this. The data
>> is being
>> made available through an API (current documentation on this is at
>> http://130.88.120.172:8080/help.html, with some example searches of
>> the
>> prototype). Bear in mind that this prototype is very much a work in
>> progress, so the data is subject to change.
>>
>> We are using names from the Zetoc service (and some supplied by the
>> Wellcome
>> Trust) as the raw material for this pilot, but as these are only
>> surnames
>> and initials, we are always on the lookout for other, more complete
>> name
>> data.
>>
>> If anyone working in a UK repository would like to share their
>> current names
>> data with the Names Project, please get in touch with us. Our
>> developer's
>> email address is [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Amanda
>>
>> --------------
>> Amanda Hill
>> Names Project
>> Mimas
>> http://names.mimas.ac.uk/
>> --------------
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Repositories discussion list
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hannah
>> Elizabeth
>>> Payne [hep]
>>> Sent: 01 July 2009 07:23
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Author name versioning query
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A query has been raised from one of our project partners at the
>>> University of Glamorgan and I wondered whether anybody had
>> any working
>>> practices in place that they would share with us?
>>> The query relates to author name versioning in DSpace and how best
>>> to
>>> manage the phenomenon of the same author publishing under a number
>>> of
>>> name variants. Obviously if you stay true to the published
>> author name
>>> each time you will end up with a number of author identities
>> in DSpace,
>>> when using the browse by author function, for the same author. The
>>> solution that is currently utilised by another WRN partner at the
>>> University of Bangor, is to use an agreed author name from
>> the academic
>>> in the dc:contributor field but then to add the published
>> author name,
>>> if different, in the dc:citation field. With this method you
>> will have
>>> one author record in DSpace, which has been agreed with the
>>> academic,
>>> but you are still staying true to the published author name in each
>>> case which shouldn't affect the item's discovery through search and
>>> discovery services such as Google; OAIster. However, has anyone else
>>> come up with any other methods for dealing with this problem that
>>> may
>>> be a bit more automated?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hannah Payne
>>>
>>> Repository Support Officer
>>>
>>> Welsh Repository Network (WRN)
>>>
>>> Aberystwyth University
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 01970 628490
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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