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The Names Project is working to uniquely identify individuals and institutions involved in research in higher education in the United Kingdom.
The Names system holds identifiers for more than 47,000 UK researchers, with new information being added all the time. Contact us if you have researcher information to add, or submit information about yourself.
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NamesProject @Wed Apr 11 12:08:14 +0000 2012
MT @atreloar: Report from KE Digital Author Identifiers workshop now available at http://t.co/Zh9do6cX [link at top right]
NamesProject @Fri Mar 23 13:58:27 +0000 2012
New Names Post: Knowledge Exchange DAI Summit: Day 2: KE-DAI participants On the second day of the Digital Autho... http://t.co/NX1ZzZd7
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 14:53:38 +0000 2012
Cliff Lynch - systems very young, still being moulded and relatively flexible. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 14:42:13 +0000 2012
'Do your homework', 'Don't make blocking choices' about identifiers - don't paint yourself into a corner. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 14:37:12 +0000 2012
Governance group - business models need to be aligned with funding sources, data should be open, clear control, collaboration. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 14:22:14 +0000 2012
Interoperability group: 1) get single canonical ID, 2) map local IDs to canonical one, 3) define & develop APIs between services #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 14:17:02 +0000 2012
Added value group reporting back on practical steps: develop local IDs, add author IDs to existing systems, share them. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 12:04:36 +0000 2012
Governance group reportback: existing international systems have different strengths and a complementary approach is needed. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 12:00:50 +0000 2012
Use the thin layer to connect other identifier services together, then agree ways of sharing data between those lower level services. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 11:55:21 +0000 2012
Interoperability group reporting at #kedai. Want a canonical, global ID (thin layer to link other IDs) with robust disambiguation services.
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:46:57 +0000 2012
Cliff Lynch giving quick overview of VIVO (pronounced veevo). #kedai Started at Cornell University.
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:39:34 +0000 2012
VIAF has an SRU-based API and offers bulk download of data. #kedai Started as a research project 10 years ago.
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:38:00 +0000 2012
Thom Hickey giving an overview of VIAF - merged authority files from national libraries. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:36:52 +0000 2012
Membership fees for ORCID expected to start from 2013. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:34:25 +0000 2012
Developers currently working on ORCID, based on ResearcherID from Thomson Reuters. 1st phase will be based on researcher self-claim. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:31:49 +0000 2012
Now Chris Shillum talking about ORCID, governance, membership, aims. #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:24:34 +0000 2012
ISNI has 1 million identities (mainly from VIAF), including 100,000 researchers (including 14,000 so far from Names Project). #kedai
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:21:56 +0000 2012
Andrew MacEwan giving an overview of developments in ISNI #kedai.
NamesProject @Wed Mar 14 09:09:08 +0000 2012
Today at #kedai the focus will be on what we might do next and how to do it.
