{"id":1077,"date":"2010-10-15T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2010-10-21T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:59:00","slug":"a-rose-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2010\/10\/a-rose-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rose by any other name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mandahill\">Amanda Hill<\/a> talking about &#8216;a new approach to name authority&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/names.mimas.ac.uk\/\">The &#8216;Names&#8217; project<\/a> &#8211; JISC funded project based at Mimas to investigate and build a prototype\/pilot system to deal with name authority.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the problem? Amanda talking about how her father bought books from an Amazon Wishlist &#8211; thinking it was her&#8217;s, but actually turned out to be another Amanda Hill who happened to live in the same town. More serious examples &#8211; someone operated on in error because of a name mix up.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda gives a (fictitious) example of how many different variations on names can appear in academic publications. From a real example: [edit: for clarity Amanda gave a fictitious example I missed, and then followed that with a real example which was taken from this <a href=\"http:\/\/separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/initials-and-names.html\">blog post<\/a>, and this real example is the one given here]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>M. Lynne Murphy<\/li>\n<li>Lynne M. Murphy<\/li>\n<li>L. M. Murphy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All same person&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So names can be confusing. You may want to retrieve all articles by a particular individual &#8211; may have to think of all forms of the name, and exclude people with the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Zetoc is a service from the British Library and Mimas which contains information about journal articles &#8211; and so millions of names of active researchers &#8211; but not complete names always, because generally initials only used in academic publication.<\/p>\n<p>So used Zetoc to pre-populate the Names system &#8211; assign unique identifiers &#8211; then start to enhance from other places.<\/p>\n<p>Currently project is testing matching algorithms, reviewing data structure, updating data mappings for other standards (MARC, CERIF, etc.), collaborating with potential data providers and Names users.<\/p>\n<p>You can search the pilot system at <a href=\"http:\/\/names.mimas.ac.uk\/advanced-search.php\">http:\/\/names.mimas.ac.uk\/advanced-search.php<\/a> Amanda doing demonstration &#8211; e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/names.mimas.ac.uk\/search.php?searchType=INDIVIDUAL&amp;familyName=abbott&amp;givenName=S&amp;fieldsOfInterest=medicine&amp;assigned=&amp;outputFormat=HTML&amp;orderBy=names&amp;mainSearchSubmit=Search  \">Abbott, S<\/a> &#8211; note that the identifiers currently assigned are not persistent &#8211; but there will be persistent identifiers once they finished tweaking data\/algorithms\/etc. Can also see relationships to others (based on co-publication I think) &#8211; e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/names.mimas.ac.uk\/individual\/60767.html?outputFields=collaborativeRelationships\">http:\/\/names.mimas.ac.uk\/individual\/60767.html?outputFields=collaborativeRelationships<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the long term want to allow researcher to edit their own information (e.g. specified a preferred name).<\/p>\n<p>Names project not the only activity in this area &#8211; also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orcid.org\/\">ORCID<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/viaf.org\/\">VIAF<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/identities\/\">WorldCat Identities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isni.org\/\">ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Various country-based initiatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Q: How far are names matched automatically &#8211; is there any human intervention<\/p>\n<p>A: Currently completely automated &#8211; but checking how accurate this is. Also erring on side of caution &#8211; so if any doubt they don&#8217;t merge identities. Matching will improve as they get more data.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What about dealing with non-english script names?<\/p>\n<p>A: Names project focussed on the UK research community, but Zetoc data not limited to this, and system designed to cope with different versions of names (and name changes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Hill talking about &#8216;a new approach to name authority&#8217; The &#8216;Names&#8217; project &#8211; JISC funded project based at Mimas to investigate and build a prototype\/pilot system to deal with name authority. What&#8217;s the problem? Amanda talking about how her father bought books from an Amazon Wishlist &#8211; thinking it was her&#8217;s, but actually turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}