The question of author disambiguation is indeed a thorny one.
We make every effort to ensure that our own University author’s names are
present in our database in a single authoritative form (manual intervention
mostly!), but what we can’t hope to control is the form of name for the many
thousands of co-authors from other institutions. So while we may always record
our author as “Jenkins, Kelly Jane” if she co-authors with Smith, P. J. and
Smith, Peter and P. Smith across a number of years we have know way of knowing
(without a lot of further investigation) whether this Smith is in fact the same
person each time. And even if we can reasonably assume that if she has
co-authored three times with a P. Smith we can’t be certain that every P. Smith
in our database is the same one. So we end up with three forms of name for what
could be the same person.
It is easy to see how you can end up with 50,000 author names from less than
4,000 University affiliated authors!!
ORCID will be a viable solution when it reaches the tipping point where the
majority of authors (or at least those still active!!) use it.
Cheers,
Vanessa Barrett
Digital Services Librarian
The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005
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From: Hilton Gibson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2013 8:15 AM
To: Rosamilia, Nichole *
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Name authority - resolving variations
It would be nice if there were an admin tool that could search and replace
author/contributor names... barring the implementation of ORCID of course.
We have collected about 50000 authors now and about 3000 advisors at a
University with 800 staff. This does not compute as Spock in Star Trek would
say.
On 5 February 2013 21:11, Rosamilia, Nichole *
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi, I’m curious about what processes people are using to implement name
authority in DSpace.
We plan to use author names from our office directory. However, when a
researcher’s bibliographic citations are pulled from databases like Web of
Science, there can be a lot of name variation and no identifier linking the
variations to the same researcher, much less to our office directory. We’ve
compiled a bibliography with hundreds of citations to load.
Barring implementing ORCID (which we are exploring), how does your institution
handle this? Right now, it looks like we’ll end up writing a script to
find/replace variations with the preferred name from the office directory. This
likely still entails a fair amount of time and manual cleanup. Any advice,
tips, or even just confirmation that others are taking a similar approach, are
appreciated.
Nichole
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