This presentation was provided by Robert Wolven of Columbia University, Dr. Thomas B. Hickey of OCLC, and Helen L. Henderson of Ringgold, Inc. during the NISO Webinar "Identifiers: New Problems, New Solutions, Part One" held on March 10, 2010.

1. • Introduction
– Todd Carpenter, Managing Director, NISO
• Why Name Identifiers
– Robert Wolven, Associate University
Librarian for Bibliographic Services and
Collection Development, Columbia University
• Linking Names
– Dr. Thomas B. Hickey, Chief Scientist, OCLC
• I2 Working Group: Where We Are Now, What's Ahead
– Helen L. Henderson, Vice President, Marketing Research &
Development, Ringgold, Inc.
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Name Identifiers
Who needs them?
Why now?
Robert Wolven
Columbia University Libraries
NISO Name Identifiers Webinar
March 10, 2010
Name Identifiers: Two Perspectives
•Information Retrieval
•Service Fulfillment
The Heart of the Matter
•One entity!=! Multiple names
-Need to clump
•One name!=! Multiple entities
- Need to split
One Entity = Multiple Names
•Metcalfe, Janet A
-Directory listings
•Janet Metcalfe
-Website, Books
•Metcalfe JA
-Journal articles
•Metcalfe, J
-Citations

2. One Name = Multiple Entities
•J A Metcalfe
-Writer on cognition
-Writer on genetics
• University of York
• University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• St. Thomas Hospital, London
-Writer on art
-Doctor, Major, Minister, Plaintiff …
Why Now?
The Argument from Necessity!
•The Past:
Bounded communities
Rules-based control
Explicit connections
Why Now?
The Argument From Necessity
•The Present (and Future):
From local to global
Exponential growth
Blended discovery
Why Now?
The Argument from Opportunity
•Web standards, technologies to leverage data
•Linked open data allows information flow to evolve, expand
•Reduces need for replicated data, redundant maintenance
Service Fulfillment Perspective
•Institutions & people as agents in transactions
•Support for supply chain management
•Support for service delivery
(based on geo-location, affiliation, etc.)
Use Cases
•Geolocation: “Find in a library …”
•Metadata harvest and re-use
•Research Impact Assessment
(for individuals and institutions)
•Data access control
•Information on the fly

3. I’ve got a plan …
•Community based
- arXiv, RePEc, PhysNet
•Product/service based
! - ResearcherID, Scopus Author Identifier
•Interdisciplinary self-registry
- Academia.edu, AuthorClaim
•Standards
- ISNI, I2, VIAF
•National Initiatives
Identifier Schemes:
Some Characteristics
•Self-registry
•Research focus
•Current activity
•Metadata fit to purpose
Some Issues
•Who do you think you are?
•Granularity and hierarchies
•Linked identities
•Retrospective application
How Many Identities?!
•Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
•Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
•Jimmy Carter/GA Governor/US President
•Center for Medical Informatics/Department of Biomedical
Informatics
•Personal/Professional; Public/Private
•Legal/Business/Promotional …
Institutional Boundaries and Hierarchies
•Columbia University in the City of New York
-Degree-granting
-Accreditation
-Contracts
-Licenses
-Budget
•Columbia University Libraries
-C.V. Starr East Asian Library
-Papyrus and Epigraphy Reading Room
•Linked Identities:
-Researcher/Insitution/Time span
•Retrospective Application:
-To existing data
-To historical identities

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ISIL (ISO 15511) International Standard
OCLC symbol OCLC specific
OCLC WorldCat Registry ID OCLC specific
MARC organization code MARC standard
International Standard for Describing Institutions with
Archival Holdings Information (ISDIAH) New standard 2008
ISNI (ISO 27729) Committee draft
SAN Standard address number NISO standard Z39.43‐1993
GLN Global location number GS1 (formerly EAN international)
DUNS Data Universal Numbering Dun and Bradstreet
NISO EDItEUR ONIX Serials Online Holdings Version 1.1 June 2007
ONIX for Licensing Terms Publisher License format Version 1.0 July 2008

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13. Phase II – Metadata Requirements (first
dra)
Data Element Sub‐Element or ACribute DefiniJon FuncJon
ins+tu+onIden+fier aUribute: typeOrSource
String of characters serving to uniquely iden+fy an
ins+tu+on
IdenJfy
variantIden+fier aUribute: typeOrSource
Alterna+ve or supplementary iden+fier that iden+fies an
ins+tu+on
Find, Iden+fy, Obtain
name language
Formal or legal name under which an ins+tu+onal en+ty
or organiza+on operates
Find, Iden+fy, Select
variantName usageDate: from, language
Other names (legal, common, etc.) by which an ins+tu+on
is known
Find
loca+on
country, state or region, city,
language
Group of data elements that give a geographic loca+on or
place associated with an ins+tu+on
Iden+fy, Select
URL Uniform resource locator to the website of the ins+tu+on Iden+fy, Select
domain Domain(s) registered to the ins+tu+onal en+ty Iden+fy, Select
affiliated Ins+tu+on iden+fier Find, Iden+fy, Select
contactInforma+on
Uniform resource locator to contact informa+on for the
ins+tu+on
Find
note
Free text field for addi+on of informa+on considered
necessary for further clarifica+on
Select
type type of ins+tu+on Find, Iden+fy

14. Phase II ‐ Matching scenario requirements to exis+ng
standards (example)
I2 Feature/ACribute More details on I2 need ISNI
Iden+fies organiza+ons I2 is about iden+fying ins+tu+ons and organiza+on that operate within and around the
informa+on supply chain.
Y
Iden+fier is a dumb number Organiza+ons change in structure and are merged and split. Iden+fiers for a given organiza+on
unit need to be persistent; therefore, the iden+fier cannot be meaningful (e.g. use the web
domain of the organiza+on).
Y
Supports for third‐party registry(ies) With a dumb iden+fier, a central registry (or a series of registries) is needed to resolve the
iden+fier into informa+on about the organiza+on.
Y
Define and maintain a core metadata set that
describe an ins+tu+on
With a dumb iden+fier, addi+onal metadata (in the registry) is needed to describe the ins+tu+on
being iden+fied. I2 has described the core metadata needed and desires to create an XML schema
for this core metadata set.
Y
Ability to include alternate iden+fiers Allow an ins+tu+on to also be known by other common iden+fiers, such as their MARC number,
etc.
Y
Defines and maintain basic rela+onships between
organiza+ons
In the informa+on supply chain it is desirable to maintain rela+onship informa+on like consor+um
and members; main ins+tu+on and departments; corporate en++es and subsidiaries, etc. This is
deemed a key aUribute of the I2 solu+on
Y
Define and maintain general categories for
ins+tu+ons
In the informa+on supply chain it is useful to provide some basic categoriza+on of an ins+tu+on
and its role within the supply chain.
Y
Address community‐specific registry needs If the standard is a more general standard, there may be aUributes of the library/informa+on
community that we want incorporated in the registry.
Y
Allow applica+on‐specific extensions to the
metadata.
Community specific applica+ons may wish to leverage the iden+fier to extend the metadata to
include things such as registered IP addresses, base URL for OpenURL resolver, organiza+on
demographics such as FTE, etc.
Y
Allow community‐specific extended services based on
the iden+fier
The iden+fier should allow organiza+ons to create value‐added services based on this iden+fier,
such as real‐+me rights checking; discovery of IP addresses; discovery of OpenURL BaseURL; etc.
Y
Crea+on of standard services related to the registry It may be desirable to implement some standard services that support the informa+on supply
chain; such as resolvers that will resolve an iden+fier into its matching metadata; or metadata into
matching iden+fiers.
Y

15. LLLP*09;P;-EWL;-T-;;'9W07 Additional Resources
All questions will be posted with presenter answers on the NISO
website following the webinar. In addition, event slides and a
resources page of useful links is also available at:
www.niso.org/news/events/2010/nameid
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