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Names and Identities
Karen Smith-YoshimuraThomas Hickey
2009 RLG Partnership Annual Meeting
Boston, MAJune 1-2, 2009
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Names touch everything….
AuthorsPublishersInstitutions
Musicians
Families
Government agencies
ArtistsFictional characters
Actors
Plant discoverers
Corporations
Pseudonyms
Illustrators
Editors
Translators
Correspondents
Historical figures
Directors
Scientists
Architects
Animals
PoliticiansInventors
Associations
Cartographers
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Names can be ambiguous…
“John Adams”… the US president? … the US composer?… the British
mathematician & astronomer?
… the British nuclear physicist?
… or someone else?
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Names depend on context…
蒋介石China, Japan:
蔣中正
شيانج آاي شيك
US: Chiang Kai-shek
France, Germany: Jiang Jieshi
Arabic-speaking countries:
Tamil: சங் ைக ெசக்
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Information sufficient to identify anddistinguish people and organizations iswidely dispersed…
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Networking NamesAdvisory Group
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Use case scenarios: Academic libraries and scholars
• Academic researcher• University department• Library cataloger• Student• Scholar
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Use case scenarios: Archivists and archival users
• Archivist creating narrative history
• Archivist complementing archival materials description
• Archival researcher identifying resources
• Archival researcher-expert
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Use case scenarios: Institutional repositories
• Researcher• Institutional repository
manager who needs to normalize researcher names
• Manager who needs to normalize corporate names
• Manager who needs to normalize department names
• Research information office manager
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Cooperative Identities Hub• Framework to concatenate and
merge authoritative information
• Gateway to all forms of names without preferring one form over another
• Use social networking model
• Provide a switch to extract relevant information for re-use in own contexts
• Create federated trust environment to authenticate and authorize contributors
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Hub objectives• Increase metadata creation
efficiency• Easier to identify identity
regardless of language or discipline
• Determine preferred form within own context
• Enable contributing agencies to augment own data resources
• Expose information about personal and corporate bodies beyond original contexts
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Hub functions
• Searches by both people and software applications
• Edit: Add information, merge, split, flag for deletion
• Create new entities
• Batch update
• Discussion
• Audit trail and rollback
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What do we have?
• A vision of an Identities Hub• Thousands of libraries, archives, and museums
• WorldCat bibliographic & holdings data• LC/NACO Name Authority File• Other library authority files
• WorldCat Identities• A page for name in WorldCat
• Virtual International Authority File• A merge of a dozen national-level authority files
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WorldCat Identities
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Searching Identities
Jump to Editing
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More WorldCat Identities
Jump to Editing
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Editing WorldCat Identities
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Merged result
Immediately visible in IdentitiesPersistent in IdentitiesInformation fed into established channels
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Plans
• Implement editing in Research version of Identities• Feed information (manually) into WorldCat/NAF• Investigate how best to move to production• Explore relationship with the Virtual International
Authority File
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Discussion
• Additional use case scenarios for your environment?• What would benefit you the most?• What is most appealing about Identities? What else is
needed?