What's in a Name?

Names Project Amanda Hill Hillbraith Ltd.

Background
JISC Repositories Programmes
Funding UK institutional repositories since 2002
March 2003: 6 repositories, 7,000 items
July 2008: 98 such repositories
Holding over 350,000 items 1
1 OpenDOAR registry ( http://www.opendoar.org) , 22 July 2008

February 2008

June 2008

July 2008

Familiar problem
Author names are entered as items are deposited (in many different forms)
Multiple forms of name for same individual -> retrieval of partial results (low recall)
Different individuals with similar names -> retrieval of non-relevant results (loss of precision)

Cross-repository
Possible for an individual repository to improve its metadata
When information is combined from a range of repositories, the situation worsens again
Intute Repository Search

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

Names
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 Spec. July 2008
1 International Federation of Library Associations, Functional Requirements for Authority Records (2007)
http://names.mimas.ac.uk/documents/

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

Simpson, T. - Graham, B. 005.1 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING JOURNAL Towards a verified MiniSML/SECD system Birtwistle, G. Tofts, C. 003.3 ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MODELING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION A Denotational Semantics for a Process-Based Simulation Language Birtwistle, G. Tofts, C. 600 HP LABORATORIES TECHNICAL REPORT HPL Operational Semantics of DEMOS 2000 Birtwistle, G. Siddiqui, N. - O'Malley, A. - McColl, J. C. 687 JOURNAL OF FASHION MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT Retailer and consumer perceptions of online fashion retailers: Web site design issues Birtwistle, G. Moore, C. M. 658.87 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RETAIL AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT The Burberry business model: creating an international luxury fashion brand Birtwistle, G. Moore, C. M. - Burt, S. 658.8 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING Channel power, conflict and conflict resolution in international fashion retailing Birtwistle, G. Co-authors DDC Journal title Article title Author

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

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/privacy 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: +1 613 394 0259

What's in a Name?

by Amanda Hill on Aug 08, 2008

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