Thank you all for your suggestions! Kevin's excellent email confirms my 
suspicions.

I am working on plans to transform our digital repository to a more broadly 
defined IR, so that will likely be our focus down the road.  However, any 
solution that requires faculty input without an immediate, tangle benefit will 
likely gain slow traction. 

I will pass along the suggestions and go from there. 

Cheers, Paul
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Paul R Butler
Assistant Systems Librarian
Simpson Library
University of Mary Washington
1801 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
540.654.1756
libraries.umw.edu

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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, 
Kevin
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:50 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?

Hi Paul,

I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area 
presently.  In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the 
Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem 
(and author identity management more generally).  You can read more about it 
from the announcement here [1], but the idea was to bring a number of the 
larger actors (Web of Science, arXiv, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, LC/NACO, and a few 
more) involved in managing authorial identity together to learn about the work 
being done, and to discuss improved ways, to disambiguate scholarly identities 
and then diffuse and share that information within and across the library and 
scholarly publishing realms.  Clifford Lynch, who moderated the meeting, will 
publish a post-workshop report in a few weeks [2].  Perhaps of additional 
interest, [2] also contains a link to the report of a similar workshop held in 
London about international author identity.

Inititatives like ISNI [3] and ORCID [4], which mint identifiers for (public, 
authorial) identities, and VIAF, which has done so much to aggregate the 
authority records of the participating libraries (while also assigning them an 
identifier), are essential to disambiguating one identity from another and 
assigning unique identifiers to those identities.  For identifiers like ORCIDs, 
the faculty member's sponsoring organization might acquire the ORCID for 
him/her, after which the faculty member will/may know and use the identifier in 
situations such as grant applications, publishing, etc. (though it might also 
be early days for this activity also).   Part of the process, however, is 
diffusing the identifier across the library and scholarly publishing domains, 
all the while matching it with the correct identity (and identifer) in another 
system.  That said, when ISNIs and ORCIDs and, perhaps, VIAF identifiers start 
to make their ways into Web of Science, arXiv, LC/NACO file, an!
 
 d many other places, we - developers looking to creating RSS feeds of author 
publications across services but without having to deal with same-name problems 
or variants - might then have the hook we need to generate RSS feeds for author 
publications from such services as JSTOR, EBSCO, arXiv, Web Of Science, etc.

Alternatively, you'd have to get your faculty members to submit their entire 
publication history to academia.edu (as Ethan suggested), after which the 
community would have to request an RSS feed of that history, or an 
institutional repository (as Chad suggested), but I understand these types of 
things are an uphill battle with (often busy, underpaid) faculty.

Cordially,

Kevin


[1] http://www.cni.org/news/cni-workshop-scholarly-id/
[2] https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113744.html
[3] http://www.isni.org/
[4] http://about.orcid.org/






> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Paul Butler (pbutler3)
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
> 
> Howdy All,
> 
> Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question.
> I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but 
> thought others might have encountered something similar.
> 
> They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else 
> that might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link 
> to their publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty 
> profile webpage (in WordPress).
> 
> I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but 
> that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the 
> same name and variants in name citation.  It appears Web of Science 
> has author authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do 
> not subscribe to WoS and am waiting for a trial to test.  What we need 
> is something similar to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers
> 
> We can ask faculty members to upload their own citations and then just 
> auto link out to something like Serials Solutions' Journal Finder,  
> but that is likely not sustainable.
> 
> So, any suggestions - particularly free or low cost solutions.  Thanks!
> 
> Cheers, Paul
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> Paul R Butler
> Assistant Systems Librarian
> Simpson Library
> University of Mary Washington
> 1801 College Avenue
> Fredericksburg, VA 22401
> 540.654.1756
> libraries.umw.edu
> 
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