1 / 21

What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?. ANNE WELSH LECTURER IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Vanitas Vanitatem.

jalia
Download Presentation

What’s in a name?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. What’s in a name? ANNE WELSH LECTURER IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

  2. Vanitas Vanitatem Mary Madden. Digital footprints: identity, search, social networking. Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2008. http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2008/Digital-Footprints.aspx

  3. Who Am I?

  4. Who Am I?

  5. Who Am I?

  6. Favourite Alter-egos[I am not an American hairdresser] http://www.annewelshsalon.com/

  7. Favourite Alter-egos[I am not a pediatric MD] http://www.ucomparehealthcare.com/drs/washington/pediatrics/Welsh_Anne.html

  8. Favourite Alter-egos[I am not an ASBO caseworker] http://www.lostamigos.net/logon/userDetails.asp?name=Anne+Welsh&user_id=94096

  9. Favourite Alter-egos[I was not born in 1548] http://records.ancestry.com/Anne%20Welsh_records.ashx?pid=10234180

  10. Who Am I? [Not quite as pretty as this girl] [Nor as pirate as this one]

  11. “My” composite persona Personas: an art installation, http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html

  12. This is me

  13. A rough guide to those who have found me http://twittersheep.com/

  14. “Raindrops on roses …”(a few of my most find-worthy things)

  15. Split personality?(E-LIS browse search by author) It’s as if this article were never written

  16. But enough about me … John H. Bowman, author of the cataloguing textbook par excellence.

  17. Clicking on “John H. Bowman” What’s happened here? John H. Bowman, taxation expert???

  18. Clicking on “Bowman, J.H.” in a standard library OPAC

  19. Google Scholar Ophthalmologist Taxation and property expert Chemist? Inventor? CATALOGUER Inventor

  20. Organisational names

  21. “Name Authority” • Not a term users would use • “I can’t find the right Joe Bloggs.” • “I can’t find everything by Jane Smith : she’s been married and divorced twice, I think.” • “I want a bibliography of all my publications.” • “Why do I have to use different search terms on book and article databases?”

More Related