Identifiers: New Problems, New Solutions, Part One: What’s in a Name? Latest Developments in Identifiers
About the Webinar
This webinar will take a look at the need for both standard personal and institutional name identifiers in an automated information environment. It will then provide an update from NISO's Institutional Identifiers (I2) working group, and a member of the RLG Partnership Networking Names Advisory Group will address how linked data, the latest spin on the Semantic Web and RDF, relates to identifiers.
Part Two of this webinar, Content Identification: What’s New, will be held on March 17.
Event Sessions
Welcome & System Overview
Introduction
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Why Name Identifiers
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Libraries have a long history of using authority records to consistently identify people and organizations and to link variant forms of names within their catalogs. Outside the library catalog these needs have until recently been addressed in other, domain-specific contexts, each with its own rules and conventions (or lack thereof). As web discovery transcends the boundaries surrounding communities and aggregations of information, the range of names encountered becomes ever larger and more diverse, and a broader framework for identification is of vital importance. New problems demand new solutions, and may change the ways we think about identity and authority.
Linking Names
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Controlling the forms of names has always been of interest to librarians. As local systems now interact with national and global library services, and library services themselves interact with the Web, clearly identifying people is becoming even more important. OCLC is involved in three new initiatives: the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), and the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). We discuss what these various systems and identifiers are and how they might fit into the web idea of ‘linked data.’
I2 (Institutional Identifiers) Working Group: Where We Are Now, What's Ahead
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The information gathering for the planned Standard for Institutional Identification is complete and a compelling argument for its development was received from the information community including libraries, publishers, intermediaries, research funders and institutional repositories. All the data collected from research and questionnaires is now being used to develop the standard itself, including the format and required metadata. The results of the information gathering including business requirements, and the timescales for the standard development will be discussed.
Q&A and Wrap-up
Additional Information
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