Presentation for the ORCID Participant Meeting held on May 18th, 2011 in Cambridge, MA.

1. Open Bibliographic Data and Author Claiming
James R. Griffin III1, 3
and Thomas Krichel1, 2, 3
1
Long Island University 2
Novosibirsk State University 3
Open Library Society
ORCID Participants Meeting
May 18th
2011

2. About Me...
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This is my first presentation at such a notable
meeting.
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I am a 24-year veteran of personal
identification problems.
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I am an MSLIS student of Thomas Krichel.

3. The Structure of the Presentation
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Open bibliographic data: 3lib
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Claiming authorship for bibliographic items:
AuthorClaim
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A new service: AuthorProfile

4. Open Bibliographic Data
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There is a movement towards open bibliographic
data.
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The main player is the Open Knowledge
Foundation’s Open Bibliographic Data Working
Group.
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Thomas and I are members of this group.
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But what precisely is open bibliographic data?

5. Principles and Practice
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The OKFN’s working group has developed principles for
open bibliographic data:
http://openbiblio.net/principles/
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The adoption of these principles is slow.
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At this point, the benefits of adopting these principles are
uncertain
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We want to make the benefits of open bibliographic data
more apparent.
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We work for The Open Library Society.

6. The Open Library Society
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The Open Library Society (OLS) aggregates
bibliographic data without imposing legal
constraints upon the usage of this data.
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The OLS uses this data to develop services that
benefit the contributing parties.
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This mirrors the development of RePEc, since 1993.

7. “A RePEc for All Disciplines”
RePEc bibliographic data → 3lib
The RePEc Author Service →AuthorClaim
EDIRC → ARIW

8. 3lib
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3lib builds an aggregate of freely available bibliographic
data.
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It is a project by the OLS sponsored by the OKFN.
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About 35 million records from collections such as:
• Pubmed
• OpenLibrary
• DBLP
• RePEc
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In the near future, 20 million records from institutional
repositories will be added.

9. 3lib Data Elements
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Each record in 3lib contains at least:
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Title
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Author name expressions
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A link to the item’s web page
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A unique identifier

10. AuthorClaim
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AuthorClaim is an “authorship claiming
service” for the data aggregated by 3lib.
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This service is modeled after the RePEc Author
Service. It uses the same software.
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AuthorClaim has been running since early
2008. It predates the ORCID initiative.

11. Author Claiming
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Author claiming records are not author
identification records.
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We don’t want to go into the difference here.

12. A Sample Author Claim Record
id:
pbi1
name variations:
“Geoffrey Bilder”
“G. Bilder”
“Bilder, G.”
“Bilder, Geoffrey”
isauthorof:
info:lib/elis:856
hasnoconnectionto:
info:lib/pubmed:11127885
info:lib/pubmed:7482633

13. AuthorProfile
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AuthorProfile is a new service that brings
together 3lib data and AuthorClaim records.
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The development of this service in progress
since fall 2010.
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The website is:
http://authorprofile.org/

14. Vision and Problem
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Vision
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For an author of which the name is known, show all
papers.
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Create reusable CV-like data for academic authors
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Problem
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Bibliographic records contain author names only

15. “Auversion”
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We combine all of the papers that have the same
author name expression into one record.
Example:
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All papers mentioning an author “J. Smith”.
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We call that “auversion”.
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“Auversion” visualizes the problem of lack of author
identification.

16. Navigation
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One can navigate through these “auverted” files
by coauthorship. This translates into browsing
web pages on the AuthorProfile website.
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We want to implement two additional
navigational features:
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Horizontal navigation
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Vertical navigation

17. Horizontal Navigation
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Horizontal navigation links name expressions which
may represent the same author.
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For example:
“F. LeFevre" → “Fred Lèfevre"
This feature has not yet been implemented.

18. Vertical Navigation
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Vertical navigation explores coauthorship of
registered authors.
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We link from author name expression pages of
“auverted” files to the closest registered author.
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Example:
Gabriele Toietta (pto2) ← "Giuseppe Orlando" ← "Andrea Cristofaro”

19. Integration with ORCID
There is no technical reason that AuthorClaim is the
only source of registered authors.
If ORCID data references bibliographic data, then
AuthorProfile can use it.
Equally, AuthorClaim records may be used within
the ORCID system.

20. AuthorProfile: Q&A
Thank you for your attention
Questions? Clarifications?