will be there just now. Renate On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:56:28 +0100 Richard Wallis <richard.wal...@dataliberate.com> wrote:
Hi Eric,What distinguishes one from another? The communities behind them, the [often overlapping] communities they are intended to serve, and the technical implementation. As a librarian, why should I care? I would, as a non-librarian, suggest that once you are happy with the ‘authority’ of them, you shouldn’t have to care. Ideally, we are not there yet, systems should be flexible and accommodating enough to link to any appropriate authority. I will probably get flamed for over generalisation here but - VIAF is an aggregation of National Libraries Authority files. - ISNI is a more publisher focused but similar effort. - OCID comes from and and tries to serve individual academic institutions, their researchers and falsity authors. authority control |simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ VIAF | X | X | X | +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ ORCID | | X | | +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ ISNI | X | X | X | +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ ~Richard On 20 June 2014 15:42, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote:On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Richard Wallis < richard.wal...@dataliberate.com> wrote: > ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name variants > and changes them into related name and generates related identity records. > It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the next few weeks. > This should change Currer Bell into a related name of Charlotte Brontë . Please humor me as I ask this question again. What is the difference between ISNI and other identifiers systems (like ORCID, etc.)? What distinguishes one from another? As a librarian, why should I care? Was as a faculty member/scholar, why should I care? Under what context is one identifier expected to be used instead of another? Maybe a picture/graph is in order: authority control simple pointer +-----------------+--------------+ VIAF | X | | +-----------------+--------------+ ORCID | | X | +-----------------+--------------+ ISNI | | | +-----------------+--------------+ — Eric Lease Morgan-- Richard Wallis Founder, Data Liberate http://dataliberate.com Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis Skype: richard.wallis1 Twitter: @rjw
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