We did a short write-up of the thoughts behind our little name app at Open Repositories last year.
Here is a link to the paper. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc172365/ We currently create new name records for people when they get added to the UNT Scholarly Works Repository. We aren't creating records for all possible authors, just authors that we come into contact with from submitted items. As we add a new author we try to link them to VIAF, LoC, ResearchGate, our local faculty profile system and a few other places. Right now we are still storing the authorized name format in the records and not the identifier but that is something we are working through so that we can store the identifiers and not just the name strings. Each name record has an added link which sends you into the digital collections to view items with that name in the metadata. I've had a number of people ask about the code for this and we will work to get it added to our github repository. It is a very simple Django app. And a final random note, we are also starting to create records for buildings on our campus as we digitize more of our university archives. Here is a record for our research park building. http://digital2.library.unt.edu/name/nm0003770/ Mark ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Tim Thompson [timat...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 9:13 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] orcid and researcherid and scopus, oh my Something like the UNT Name App strikes me as right in line with the BIBFRAME Authorities model and its "lightweight abstraction layer" ( http://bibframe.org/documentation/bibframe-authority/). Imagine if every research institution started maintaining a local authority file like this and exposed it as RDF: the LOD-LAM linked data cloud could start to scale up very quickly. Mark, how is the UNT Name App being populated/maintained? Are there plans to link these local identifiers to objects in the digital collections? Is the source code available? As for aggregating/cross-walking identifiers in general, I think Wikidata ( http://wikidata.org) holds a lot of potential (see, for example, the Wikidata item for Barack Obama: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76). Tim -- Tim A. Thompson Metadata Librarian (Spanish/Portuguese Specialty) Princeton University Library 693 Alexander Road, 2nd Floor Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (609) 258-2597 (office) (201) 423-9972 (mobile) www.linkedin.com/in/timathompson t...@princeton.edu On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Phillips, Mark <mark.phill...@unt.edu> wrote: > We are including these identifiers in the authority records we create for > our system. > > Here is an example record in the UNT Name App for me with some of these > links. > http://digital2.library.unt.edu/name/nm0000001/ > > Here is a record with VIAF and LC identifiers integrated. > http://digital2.library.unt.edu/name/nm0001756/ > > Right now we are just storing these links and how they relate to our local > identifiers for a person, organization, event, or building in our name app. > > Don't know if that is helpful or not. > > Mark > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Eric > Lease Morgan [emor...@nd.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 1:34 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] orcid and researcherid and scopus, oh my > > ORDID and ResearcherID and Scopus, oh my! > > It is just me, or are there an increasing number of unique identifiers > popping up in Library Land? A person can now be identified with any one of > a number of URIs such as: > > * ORCID - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-7800 > * ResearcherID - http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-2062-2014 > * Scopus - http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=25944695600 > * VIAF - http://viaf.org/viaf/26290254 > * LC - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94036700 > * ISNI - http://isni.org/isni/0000000035290715 > > At least these identifiers are (for the most part) “cool”. > > I have a new-to-me hammer, and these identifiers can play a nice role in > linked data. For example: > > @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> . > <http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831211213201> dc:creator > "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-7800"; , > "http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94036700"; , > "http://isni.org/isni/0000000035290715"; , > "http://viaf.org/viaf/26290254"; . > > How have any of y’all used theses sorts of identifiers, and what problems > do you think you will be able to solve by doing so? For example, I know of > a couple of instances where these sort of identifiers are being put into > MARC records. > > — > Eric Morgan >
