Names Project Amanda Hill Hillbraith Ltd.

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Background JISC Repositories Programmes Funding UK institutional repositories since 2002 Now 96 such repositories in the UK Holding almost 350,000 items 1 1 OpenDOAR registry, 24 June 2008

JISC Repositories Programmes

Funding UK institutional repositories since 2002

Now 96 such repositories in the UK

Holding almost 350,000 items 1

1 OpenDOAR registry, 24 June 2008

February 2008

June 2008

Names Investigating potential for a name authority service for repositories, to aid with: Metadata creation as part of submission process Precise and comprehensive retrieval of items created by individuals across repositories Scope of prototype: Names of people Names of institutions Project partners: British Library Mimas, The University of Manchester

Investigating potential for a name authority service for repositories, to aid with:

Metadata creation as part of submission process

Precise and comprehensive retrieval of items created by individuals across repositories

Scope of prototype:

Names of people

Names of institutions

Project partners:

British Library

Mimas, The University of Manchester

Names Two phases Scoping Prototype building

Two phases

Scoping

Prototype building

Expert Panel http://names.mimas.ac.uk/about/expert-panel/

Scoping Phase Landscape Report October 2007 Requirements Report February 2008 Data Analysis Report April 2008 Mappings against FRAD 1 Software Requirements Specification 1 International Federation of Library Associations, Functional Requirements for Authority Records (2007)

Landscape Report October 2007

Requirements Report February 2008

Data Analysis Report April 2008

Mappings against FRAD 1

Software Requirements Specification

1 International Federation of Library Associations, Functional Requirements for Authority Records (2007)

Prototype Building (1) Building database based on FRAD data model Creating basic records for UK institutions Devising unique identifier system Creating initial set of records for individuals Zetoc PubMed Central

Building database based on FRAD data model

Creating basic records for UK institutions

Devising unique identifier system

Creating initial set of records for individuals

Zetoc

PubMed Central

Sample Zetoc data 620.0044 Dewey Class: SIMULATION PRACTICE AND THEORY Journal Title: Getting Demos models right. (I). Practice Article Title: Birtwistle, G.; Tofts, C. Author(s): 600 Dewey Class: HP LABORATORIES TECHNICAL REPORT HPL Journal Title: Operational Semantics of DEMOS 2000 Article Title: Tofts, C.; Birtwistle, G. Author(s): 658.83 Dewey Class: JOURNAL OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR Journal Title: Consumer purchasing behaviour: An investigation of the UK mature women's clothing market Article Title: Birtwistle, G.; Tsim, C. Author(s): 658.87 Dewey Class: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RETAIL AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT Journal Title: Fashion clothing - where does it all end up? Article Title: Birtwistle, G.; Moore, C. M. Author(s): 629.8 Dewey Class: COLLOQUIUM DIGEST- IEE Journal Title: Modelling AMULET1 in CCS Article Title: Birtwistle, G.; Lui, Y. Author(s): 658.87 Dewey Class: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RETAIL AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT Journal Title: More than just a name above the shop: a comparison of the branding strategies of two UK fashion retailers Article Title: Birtwistle, G.; Freathy, P. Author(s): 687 Dewey Class: JOURNAL OF FASHION MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT Journal Title: Customer segmentation in fashion retailing: A conjoint study Article Title: Birtwistle, G.; Clarke, I.; Freathy, P. Author(s):

Prototype Building (2) Registration system to allow individuals to claim their data and add and amend the information held about themselves e.g. institutional affiliations over time Interfaces for use by repositories and other services

Registration system to allow individuals to claim their data and add and amend the information held about themselves

e.g. institutional affiliations over time

Interfaces for use by repositories and other services

Planned features of Names service Unique identity number for individuals and institutions People may have more than one identity number (pseudonyms) All forms of name are of equal status No ‘preferred term’ Authors will be able to update information about themselves and choose what data is made available to others Best way to avoid data protection issues Repositories will be able to query or harvest the database To help their users enter consistent metadata Cross-repository search services will be able to use unique identifiers to retrieve information from different sources

Unique identity number for individuals and institutions

People may have more than one identity number (pseudonyms)

All forms of name are of equal status

No ‘preferred term’

Authors will be able to update information about themselves and choose what data is made available to others

Best way to avoid data protection issues

Repositories will be able to query or harvest the database

To help their users enter consistent metadata

Cross-repository search services will be able to use unique identifiers to retrieve information from different sources

More information Project website: http://names.mimas.ac.uk/ Email: [email_address] Phone: 001 613 394 0259

Project website: http://names.mimas.ac.uk/

Email: [email_address]

Phone: 001 613 394 0259