Solving the Challenge of Connecting People and Author Networks

Welcome to the SLA Taxonomy Division’s
“Webinar Wednesdays”
September 14, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT
Today’s Topic: Solving the Challenge of
Connecting People and Author Networks
Access Innovations, Inc.
Changing search to found
Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO
j_ven_eman@accessinn.com
www.accessinn.com
www.dataharmony.com
+1.505.998.0800
Albuquerque, NM

Next up for the SLA Taxonomy Division’s “Webinar Wednesdays”
“Why Information Architecture on SharePoint”
Presented by Joe Shepley, Doculabs
October 12, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT
“Drilling Down to the Challenge of a
SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation”
Presented by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.
November 9, 2011, 1:00 PM EST
“Taxonomies for Publishing:
Enhancing the User Experience”
Presented by Jay Ven Eman, Access Innovations, Inc.
December 14, 2011, 1:00 PM EST

Goals and Agenda
Why is it important right now that we develop better resources about people?
What roles can taxonomies play in this effort?
What opportunities are being created for knowledge discovery and collaboration?
What broad initiatives and technologies should we be aware of?

Magnitude of the Problem:
Facebook - 700 Million Users Projected for 2011(Open-First)
700 Million Names
How will your boss, peers,
anyone ever find you?

What’s in a name?
Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

What’s in a name?
My name
Jay Ven Eman
Ven Eman, Jay
<First_Name>Jay</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Ven Eman</Last_Name>
Name variants
Aliases
Jay Von Eman
William Henry McCarty
Henry Antrim
William H. Bonney
Billy the Kid
Jay Van Eman
Jay van Eman
Jay ven Eman
Jay Veneman
National & Cultural Conventions
Jay Venema

One Person: many representations and affiliations
VIAF: Virtual International Authority File
http://viaf.org/viaf/95216565/

Why should you care?
Promotion (tenure)
Networking
Social media
Peer review
Attribution
Citation accuracy
“Discoverability”
Collaboration
Revenue
Member recruiting
Member retention
User satisfaction
Better research
Better tech transfer
Sharing
Semantic Web

What do we do about it?
Semantics
Taxonomies
Thesauri
Classification/indexing
Markup
Unstructured to…
Structured
Name disambiguation

The Semantic Roadmap: Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS)
Linked Entities
Contextual Specificity
Complex
High value
Semantic network
Ontology
Thesaurus
Taxonomy
Controlled vocabulary
Synonym set/ring
Name authority file
Uncontrolled list
Ontology
Semantic Network
Thesaurus
Taxonomy
Controlled vocabulary
Synonym set/ring
Name authority file
Uncontrolled list
Unrelated Entities
Ambiguity
Simple
Low Value

Integration / workflow
API’s, Client/Server,
Web Services, HTTP-TCP/IP
Author Submission
System
Books
Content
Repository “A”
Or Intermediate
Processes
Conference
Proceedings
Content
Repository
“B”, etc.
Thesaurus
Master
M.A.I.
ETC.
Data Harmony
MAIstro Server
Web
Sites
Classification System

Select the document collection
CMS
Please select the database and the the document directory to load

CMS
Load the documents

Sample unstructured document

Run the documents through a metadata extraction process to create well-formed, rich XML
Automatic (per doc template)
E.g. Dublin Core Metadata
Bibliographic citation

Automatically add the taxonomy terms
Entity extraction: People, Places, Things
Conceptual indexing: using the taxonomy

Classification Process or Assigned Indexing
<Anchor><Date>09-14-11</Date>
<TI>“Solving the Challenge”</TI>
<BLH>By</BLH>
<Author>
<AU_FN>Jay</AU_FN>
<AU_MI></AU_MI>
<AU_LN>Ven Eman</AU_LN>
</Author>
<Body>The process of indexing a content object begins with…</Body>
<Subject>Indexing</Subject>
<Subject>Thesauri</Subject>
<Subject>Standards</Subject>
<Subject>Classification</Subject>
</Anchor>
09-14-11
“Solving the Challenge”
By Jay Ven Eman
The process of indexing a content object begins with…
Thesaurus
Master
M.A.I.
Unstructured
Data Harmony
MAIstro Server
Structured
Content
Repository
e.g. Database
Classification System

Integrating Identity into Publisher Systems

Author Submission Systems

Classification/indexing
Suggested terms

Button to auto-extract taxonomy attributes
Organizational (or people) profiles
User pastes or uploads CV
User Reviews tagging for accuracy

Copyright © 2011 Access Innovations, Inc.
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Topics, associations, occurrences
doc-type
MLB
article
Sports
http://www.newindexer.com/mlb.htm/
use-for
member-of
descriptor-for
Professional baseball
author-of
related-to
Professional athletes
member-of
Baseball
member-of
Amateur baseball
Smith
member-of
Little league
http://www.swaa.org

Creating an Author Authority Database
Tag all articles in the repository with standard subjects
Export author names, subjects, institutions, locations, etc.
Disambiguate authors with the same or similar names

Goals and Agenda
Why is it important right now that we develop better resources about people?
What roles can taxonomies play in this effort?
What opportunities are being created for knowledge discovery and collaboration?
What broad initiatives and technologies should we be aware of?

Author Data: View by Connections…

… or by location…

…Or in the Document itself:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x001

Visualizations: co-author networks

Many Repositories for Names

VIAF: Virtual International Authority File
http://viaf.org

Project VIVO
Designed around linked data standards Resource Description Framework (RDF)
VIVO’s ontology integrates data from human resource systems, grants databases, faculty annual reporting systems, and publication databases
Free open-source software download: http://vivo.sourceforge.net

Detailed Profiles of Medical/BioMedical Researchers
Contact a researcher with the desired expertise and research activity
Focus the results
Explore a research area
Locate the PI for a grant

Information stored as Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Data is structured in the form of “triples” as subject-predicate-object.
Concepts and their relationships use a shared ontology to facilitate the harvesting of data from multiple sources.
Dept. of Genetics
College of Medicine
is member of
Jane Smith
Genetics Institute
has affiliations with
Journal article
author of
Book
Book chapter
Subject
Predicate
Object

Detailed Data Relationships
Connections among scientists illustrated
David Nelson
has position in
organization with position for
Biomedical Informatics
Inverse relationships are created
is research area of
has research area
has position in
featured in
Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
organization with position for
Mike Conlon
features
Ed Tech Magazine
Gene Anderson
has author
author of
author of
has author
Development of an Observational Instrument to Measure Mother-Infant Separation Post Birth
Current and accurate data revealed

ORCID
125 Participant Organizations
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Testing Possible Matching Algorithms:
VIAF matching technology from OCLC
Author Resolver from ProQuest
Matching capability from OKKAM
Access Innovations Author Authority
ORCID Profile Exchange
ORCID
F67572010
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Thank you! Questions?
Solving the Challenge of
Connecting People and Author Networks
Access Innovations, Inc.
Changing search to found
Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO
j_ven_eman@accessinn.com
www.accessinn.com
www.dataharmony.com
+1.505.998.0800
Albuquerque, NM

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