Open Bibliographic Data and Author Claiming

James R. Griffin III1, 3 and Thomas Krichel1,

2, 3

1Long Island University 2Novosibirsk State University 3Open Library Society

ORCID Participants MeetingMay 18th 2011

About Me... This is my first presentation at such a

notable meeting.

I am a 24-year veteran of personal identification problems.

I am an MSLIS student of Thomas Krichel.

The Structure of the Presentation Open bibliographic data: 3lib

Claiming authorship for bibliographic items: AuthorClaim

A new service: AuthorProfile

Open Bibliographic Data There is a movement towards open

bibliographic data.

The main player is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Bibliographic Data Working Group.

Thomas and I are members of this group.

But what precisely is open bibliographic data?

Principles and Practice The OKFN’s working group has developed

principles for open bibliographic data:http://openbiblio.net/principles/

The adoption of these principles is slow.

At this point, the benefits of adopting these principles are uncertain

We want to make the benefits of open bibliographic data more apparent.

We work for The Open Library Society.

The Open Library Society The Open Library Society (OLS) aggregates

bibliographic data without imposing legal constraints upon the usage of this data.

The OLS uses this data to develop services that benefit the contributing parties.

This mirrors the development of RePEc, since 1993.

“A RePEc for All Disciplines”

RePEc bibliographic data → 3lib

The RePEc Author Service →AuthorClaim

EDIRC → ARIW

3lib 3lib builds an aggregate of freely available

bibliographic data.

It is a project by the OLS sponsored by the OKFN.

About 35 million records from collections such as:

• Pubmed• OpenLibrary• DBLP• RePEc

In the near future, 20 million records from institutional repositories will be added.

3lib Data Elements

Each record in 3lib contains at least:

Title

Author name expressions

A link to the item’s web page

A unique identifier

AuthorClaim AuthorClaim is an “authorship claiming

service” for the data aggregated by 3lib.

This service is modeled after the RePEc Author Service. It uses the same software.

AuthorClaim has been running since early 2008. It predates the ORCID initiative.

Author Claiming Author claiming records are not author

identification records.

We don’t want to go into the difference here.

A Sample Author Claim Recordid:pbi1

name variations:“Geoffrey Bilder”“G. Bilder”“Bilder, G.”“Bilder, Geoffrey”

isauthorof:info:lib/elis:856

hasnoconnectionto:info:lib/pubmed:11127885info:lib/pubmed:7482633

AuthorProfile AuthorProfile is a new service that

brings together 3lib data and AuthorClaim records.

The development of this service in progress since fall 2010.

The website is:http://authorprofile.org/

Vision and Problem Vision

For an author of which the name is known, show all papers.

Create reusable CV-like data for academic authors

Problem Bibliographic records contain author names

only

“Auversion” We combine all of the papers that have the

same author name expression into one record.

Example: All papers mentioning an author “J. Smith”.

We call that “auversion”.

“Auversion” visualizes the problem of lack of author identification.

Navigation One can navigate through these

“auverted” files by coauthorship. This translates into browsing web pages on the AuthorProfile website.

We want to implement two additional navigational features: Horizontal navigation Vertical navigation

Horizontal Navigation Horizontal navigation links name

expressions which may represent the same author.

For example:

“F. LeFevre" → “Fred Lèfevre"

This feature has not yet been implemented.

Vertical Navigation Vertical navigation explores coauthorship of

registered authors.

We link from author name expression pages of “auverted” files to the closest registered author.

Example:Gabriele Toietta (pto2) ← "Giuseppe Orlando" ← "Andrea

Cristofaro”

Integration with ORCIDThere 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.

AuthorProfile: Q&AThank you for your

attention

Questions?Clarifications?