Unit One Names A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ---Shakespeare.
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A. Rose by any other name
A new approach to name authority
Amanda Hill@mandahill
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The Names Project‘From the Annals of the Onomastic
Society’
Ian Watson (1990)
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Rhyming couples
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Academic impact Immunologist Alexandra Nicole
Rose
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitsrejk/42284247/
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Forms of name Rose, A. N. Alexandra Rose A. N. Rose Alexandra N. Rose Rose, Alexandra N. Rose, Alexandra Nicole Rose, Alexandra Alexandra Nicole Rose
And these are all spelt correctly!
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2009/08/initials-and-names.html
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Background Repositories Programme
People depositing copies of their papers, learning materials, slides in institutional and subject-based digital repositories
Need to add name (and other) data to the digital object for information retrieval
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What? Names of people involved in creating
materials
Names of institutions and (perhaps) departments
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Retrieval Users/administrators/funders may
want to find all articles by a particular individual
Difficult if the name has been entered in a variety of ways
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Disambiguation Need to retrieve only those materials
deposited by that particular individual
With common names, there will be many matches – loss of precision
Need to be able to uniquely identify individuals Ideally using principles of Linked Data
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What is the Names Project? A JISC-funded Mimas project in collaboration with the British Library Phase 1 (July 2007 – February 2009):
Investigated the potential and requirements for a Name Authority Service A prototype was developed with test set of data
Phase 2: (March 2009 – February 2011):Expand prototype into pilot systemLook at future options as a service
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Mimas British Library
Millions of names of
active researchers
Only initials, not full
forenames
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Process Use Zetoc to pre-populate the Names
system Identify unique individuals and assign
identifiers
Enhance data with information from other sources e.g. UKPMC grantees database
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Names Phase One Activities Establish requirements
Determine data structure
Map to existing name-related standards (e.g. MARC, EAC-CPF, CERIF, FOAF)
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Current phase Testing matching algorithms Reviewing data structure Updating data mappings for revised
and new standards Collaborating with potential data
providers and Names users
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Demo http://names.mimas.ac.uk/
http://names.mimas.ac.uk/script-test-two/
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RDF version of record
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Longer term Allow researchers to edit their own
information (e.g. to specify a preferred form of name)
Arrange for upload of information from universities repositories funding bodies
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Broader context Lots of activity in this area right now
ORCID (Open Researcher Contributor Identifier) VIAF & WorldCat Identities(OCLC) ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) Various national initiatives in other countries
Netherlands Norway Australia New Zealand Poland/Spain (under consideration)
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Names matter…
In 2000 there were seven people in the USA with the name Robert Pattinson. howmanyofme.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23A0qzm374g
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Project updates Names website:
http://names.mimas.ac.uk
Project blog:http://namesproject.wordpress.com
Twitter: @NamesProject