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Identifying persons unambiguously

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Identifying persons unambiguously. The DAI (Digital Author Identifier ) project in the Netherlands Chris Baars, euroCRIS 14-15 Sept. 2009 Brussels. Outline. What is a Digital Author Identifier? The need for a Digital Author Identifier

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Identifying persons unambiguously

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  1. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Identifying persons unambiguously The DAI (Digital Author Identifier ) project in the Netherlands Chris Baars, euroCRIS 14-15 Sept. 2009 Brussels

  2. Outline • What is a Digital Author Identifier? • The need for a Digital Author Identifier • The project: Assigning a DAI to all scientific authors • Problems faced: don’t underestimate the complexity • Some results and benefits • Conclussion

  3. What is a digital AuthorIdentifier? • info:eu-repo/dai/nl/071792279

  4. WHY is a DigitialAuthorIdentifierneeded? • To avoid name ambiguity and variants • To keep track of people across institutes during academic career • To distinguish people with the same name During the project …… • Computer readable names helps to build services • Services can profit from work already done

  5. ORION project: DARE program, SURFfoundation (2003) • With ID vs Without ID • Name ambiguity and variants

  6. NAME AMBIGUITY AND VARIANTS 6

  7. OUTCOME ORION project - 2004 • Need for national approach and national thesaurus of author names • Authors want to submit information once. DAI helps to connect information with other systems • DAI can help to bridge CRIS en OAI world

  8. Scientistabout the Needforidentification Researcher idenfitication: the right needle in the haystack Lancet vol 371, June 28, 2008 Life couldbe a lot easierifeveryscientist had a uniqueidentificationnumber. The question is: whoshould provide them? Science vol 323, 27 march 2009

  9. 2009: DAI PROJECT

  10. HOW CAN WE distinguish people? • Prof.dr . J. de Haan ? • Prof.dr . J. de Haan ?

  11. HOW CAN WE distinguish people? • Prof.dr . J. de Haan ? • info:eu-repo/dai/nl/097036137 • info:eu-repo/dai/nl/072226552

  12. AssigningDAI’s METIS (CRIS) as source

  13. Present situation in The netherlands • All researchers of universities & KNAW have a DAI (45.000) • Thesaurus hosted by OCLC • IR’s in progress (still 5 universities without DAI) • 50% of the Open Access publications has min. 1 DAI • Plans made for non-university institutes (like RIVM, KNMI, NWO etc.)

  14. PROBLEMS FACED • CRIS’s contained many duplicate names and name variants. CRIS’s needed to be cleaned-up • Project started with universities: but there is a large world outsite the universities. • Synchronisation between CRIS en IR • Time span of project • Many project-participants made coordination complicated

  15. Other Services with the DAI • Widgets for Scientists • Expert Finder project • Resource maps • Webservices on national level (SRU) • Dutch Ministries integrate data in their intranet

  16. Conclussion A Digital Author Identifier is not only about ‘giving every person a number’, but also about authenticity of scientific output. Without author identification information services are not helpful and they will not be accepted by the public.

  17. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

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