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Francis Jayakanth <[log in to unmask]> writes
> Hello List, I have a question about the inclusion of all the
> publications of an author in an institutional repository (IR). The
> actual scenario is the following:
>
> Author A works in Institute X for 'n' of number of years. Institute
> X has an IR and all the works of A till the time he was associated
> with institute X are available from the IR of institute X. Author A
> then relinquishes his position at institute X and takes up a
> position in Institute Y and henceforth all his works are available
> from the IR of Institute Y and so on.
>
> For a prospective research student or an end user, it becomes
> difficult to get a full picture of the nature work being done by
> author A from single source.
I agree. We have been dealing with this in the RePEc digital library
by having authers build their profiles. Each author does it for
him/herself. We have over 20,000 economists who have registered. We
use the profiles to build rankings. As an example, for Ben Bernanke,
we have
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbe55.html
That system has been growing for 11 years now.
> My question is, what should be the policy of the IRs with respect to
> the scattered works of an author and how should it be handled?
I am working on a system that implements an author claiming system
for all disciplines. This is the AuthorClaim system at
http://authorclaim.org. The software was funded by the Open Society
Institute (OSI). The AuthorClaim system runs since 2008.
Within the AuthorClaim system, I am currently reading data for
IRs. I don't want to do the harvesting myself. I have been relying
on the kind folks of the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine,
http://www.base-search.net. I have been getting from them data about
documents that could be used for author claiming. Clearly not all
IR-stored items are suitable. For example, a mediaeval manuscript
would be unlikely to be claimed by a living author. Also I am not
taking archives of student work as a first priority but I will
probably relax that later. Also some data I know for sure is
duplicated. Say PubMed central paper are all in PubMed, so I only
take one description of it from that source.
The data that I have from selected from BASE is documented here
http://wotan.liu.edu/base
You may want to check that your IR is included. If you don't see it
please conduct searches in BASE
http://www.base-search.net
to see if you find your documents there. If you don't see them
contact, contact the Master Aggregator of BASE, Friedrich Summann
<[log in to unmask]>. If you do see them in BASE but
not in
http://wotan.liu.edu/base
contact me with a sample record you found in BASE and I will see
what I can do for you.
At the moment I am still reading the BASE data. Today my records
show that I have 2.7 million of 12 million read. Overall are over
100 million authorships that can be claimed in AuthorClaim.
All profiles are available at
ftp://authorclaim.org
for easy mirroring and reuse. The data is licensed as CC0. All
profile changes are instantly recorded in the ftp tree.
It should be technically straightforward to import all profiles in
AuthorClaim into any IR. If a local paper has been claimed (which
can be found be looking at the handle) you can build a profile page
that contains detailed information about the local paper and brief
links to remote papers. Then if your local users complain that the
profile page only shows brief descriptions for the remote papers
tell them to upload.
If you are running EPrints, we have some software that was written
as part of the OSI project that allows a tighter intergration
between AuthorClaim and an IR, including author name input aids and
automatic AuthorProfile update when an author uploads a new
paper. But discussing details here would be too technical.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
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