nicnames: an overview
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nicnames: an overviewnames roundtable, 18 june 2010
rebecca parkerresearch services librarianswinburne university of technology
subject matter expertnicnames project
NicNames: the project
Collaborative project:> Swinburne> University of Newcastle> University of New South Wales
Funded by the ARROW Project (arrow.edu.au):
> Focused on (but not limited to) repositories
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Names: the problem
Author name = 20% of academiclibrary catalogue searches
Neither consistent nor unique: problem>all published works by a single author>specific papers by known authors
How about institutional repositories?
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Names: the status quoBrowse menus for 3 Australian institutional repositories
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
NicNames: the process
Phase 1: Analysis> Data analysis> Repository manager survey> User research project
Phase 2: Development
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
No one cares what you do untilyou get it wrong
> Swinburne examples:1. Standard version (controlled)2. Preferred version3. Published version
NicNames: the discoveries (1)
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
NicNames: the discoveries (2)Name variants can have meaning> Journal house style> Citation formats> Transliteration, transcription, translation> Patronymics and other inherited names> Changes in personal circumstances> Desired distance from previous publications> Different identities for different contexts
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Authority control doesn’t work for IRs> ‘Missing’ information> ‘Different’ information
NicNames: the discoveries (3)
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Publications actually tell us a lot about researchers
> Field of research (FOR) classifications> Frequent source titles, conferences> Frequent publishers> Publication type
> Affiliation> Coauthorship
NicNames: the discoveries (4)
ARDC:Projects, grants,research data
An obvious solution?
Libraries
Web
University
Research
(A) unique identifier(s)> People Australia party identifier> LCCN; ISNI; ISADN
> Scopus ID> Thomson ResearcherID> GAMS ID
> OpenID> Staff ID or email address
Or one to rule them all … ?
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
NicNames: the decisions
A local approach is appropriate:> Local knowledge> Local systems: repositories, HR
A national approach can be coordinated
Artificial intelligence can help:> Multiple sources of data are the key
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
NicNames: the software> Assigns unique IDs> Exports to XML, OAI-PMH (new)> Stores known information about researchers> Makes use of data universities already have> Simple Web application with API (PHP)> Can control which data is exported
https://launchpad.net/nicnames
ARROW NicNames Project
ARROW NicNames Project
ARROW NicNames Project
ARROW NicNames Project
ARROW NicNames Project
• Chris Smith Chris Smith
ARROW NicNames Project
• Ralph = Tim (sometimes)
ARROW NicNames Project
Questions?
Questions?
Questions?
ARROW NicNames Project
NicNames and privacy
Only public data should be used
A ‘no surprises’ approach
Configurable export for data elements
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
NicNames and ARDCPIP
Now OAI-PMH compliant
Considering future EAC support
Can store party IDs where these exist
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Questions?
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Acknowledgements
ARROW Project for funding
Thomas Rutter for software screencapture
Dr Peter Sefton, ADFI, for help, adviceand support throughout the Project
For more information on this presentation, please contact:
Rebecca ParkerResearch Services LibrarianSwinburne University of Technology
or visit http://nicnamesproject.blogspot.com/
For software questions, please contact Thomas Rutter, Swinburne [email protected]