More than 47,700 UK researchers now have unique identifiers in the JISC
Names system: http://names.mimas.ac.uk. Most of these identities have also
now been assigned ISNIs (International Standard Name Identifiers:
http://isni.org/) in collaboration with the British Library and OCLC and we
will be adding those ISNIs to the Names records in the coming weeks. One of
our aims is to have Names become a Registration Agency for ISNIs for UK
researchers.
Names will be taking part in an event on author identification organised by
GrandIR on 6 September:
http://www.grandir.com/en/tecnical-session/technical-session-on-author-id-an
d-orcid. Amongst other things, this event will be investigating the best
ways for institutions and national author identification services to
interoperate with the international ORCID service which will be launching in
the autumn.
We have just finished adding information from the University of the West of
England's Research Repository to Names, enhancing or creating more than 700
identities with information from the EPrints RDF version of the repository's
data (http://wp.me/pcwZn-8B).
We are looking for other repositories and institutions to work with in this
way, so if you would like us to assign Names identifiers to the researchers
working in your institution, please get in touch!
Oh, and if you like names, you might be interested in this visualisation of
the most common surnames in London: http://names.mappinglondon.co.uk/,
produced by James Cheshire of UCL's Department of Geography. We don't have a
Names identifier for James yet, though. :-(
Amanda
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Amanda Hill
Names Project
http://names.mimas.ac.uk/
@NamesProject
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