dan needham & phil cross (mimas) – names project
DESCRIPTION
Pecha Kucha presented at Repository Fringe 2011.TRANSCRIPT
The Names Project
Dan Needham & Phil Cross
04-08-2011
Background
John Smith Smith, J. J C Smith
Smith, Joanne
Smith, J. B. ???
J Hall née Smith
Joanne Clare Hall
Data In
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NamesData
RAE
Zetoc
EPrints
Disambiguation
Disambiguation
Cox, B.E.
Prof, OBE
“Double defractiveHiggs…”
Physics
Manchester
Maxfield, S.J.
Image: Paul Clarke@flickr
Co-author
Data Out
NamesData
API
JSON
RDF
MARKXML
HTML
Image: Bob Lee@flickr
Use cases
Names
Current records
How many records permanent and where from?
46840 Records made permanent
~ 30 MillionRecords inProgress
Thousands more on the way
What’s next
Processing the zetoc data!
More data! Names
Data Ownership
Usage!
Other IDs
ISNI ORCID …
Thanks Brian!http://names.mimas.ac.uk/individual/35219
Image: unimancschools@flickr
Names for Repositories
- EPrints plugin
- Extracting researcher data from
EPrints
- Manual submission of researcher
data to Names
EPrints Plugin
- Augments name auto-completion with Names API
- Adds Person URI to repository
Cox, B.T.http://names.mimas.ac.uk/individual/38855
Repository
Plugin in Action
Plugin in Action
Plugin in Action
Plugin in Action
Future Plugins
Researcher: export your own information to Names
Admin: global editing of existing info to Names format
http://names.mimas.ac.uk/individual/38855
Roberts, L.R.http://names.mimas.ac.uk/individual/55665
Repository
Importing data from EPrints
RDF
Submission to Names
Disambiguation
Names Data