About

  • Background

    A brief background of the project.

  • Expert Panel

    A listing of the expert panel members.

  • Documents

    A collection of output documents from the project.

Background

The Names Project is working to uniquely identify individuals and institutions involved in research in the United Kingdom. Our aim is to make it easier to link individuals with the results of their research.

The pilot Names system currently identifies over 40,000 of the UK's top researchers. We are working with universities and other research institutions to increase the number of individuals who have a Names identifier. Individual researchers who do not already have a Names unique identifier can obtain one by completing the Names submission form.

Universities can obtain unique identifiers for their staff by submitting information in bulk to the Names team.

The Names Project is funded by JISC as part of the Information Environment Programme's Shared Infrastructure Services Strand. It is a collaboration between Mimas and the British Library.

Expert panel

The Expert Panel for Names has been established to guide and advise the project team. It includes representatives of repositories, repository software developers, and metadata and name authority experts. There is a mailing list for this group.

  • Stephen Andrews, British Library
  • Phil Barker, Heriot-Watt University
  • Rachel Bruce, JISC
  • Santy Chumbe, Heriot-Watt University
  • Alan Danskin, British Library
  • Basil Dewhurst, National Library of Australia
  • James Farnhill,JISC
  • Thom Hickey, OCLC
  • Steve Hitchcock, University of Southampton
  • Philip Hunter, University of Edinburgh
  • Neil Jacobs, JISC
  • Pete Johnston, Eduserv
  • Linda Kerr, Intute
  • Jackie Knowles, Repositories Support Project
  • Traugott Koch, Max Planck Institute
  • Gerry Lawson, Research Councils UK
  • Andrew MacEwan, British Library
  • Richard Moore, British Library
  • Martin Moyle, University College London
  • William Nixon, University of Glasgow
  • Charles Oppenheim, University of Loughborough
  • Sally Rumsey, University of Oxford
  • Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC
  • Neil Wilson, British Library

The first meeting of the Panel was held on 27 September 2007 in London.

Documents

Project reports and documents are posted on this page as they are completed.

Reports and plans

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

Dissemination

2009

  • The Names Project developer, Dan Needham is giving progress updates on Twitter.
  • Presentation by Dan Needham on Names project at Web Services and Repositories workshop, 2 June 2009 [PowerPoint slides, 205KB]

2008

2007