This list is a work in progress and we welcome additions to it. Please send any suggestions to Chew Chiat Naun (cnc53[at]cornell.edu) or Jason Kovari (jak473[at]cornell.edu).
Library Authorities
PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO (last updated March 31, 2016): https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/Identity-management-NACO-PCC-TG.pdf
Regional authority projects
Western Name Authority File Project https://sites.google.com/site/westernnameauthorityfile/
Colorado Local Authorities Project - see Katherine M. Crowe and Kevin M. Clair, Developing a Tool for Publishing Linked Local Authority Data. Journal of Library Metadata 15(3-4) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2015.1099993
Organization identifiers
JISC/CASRAI pilot on organization identifiers
ORCID/Datacite organization identifiers effort (Josh Brown, Patricia Cruse - Force11 workshop, https://force2016.sched.org/event/5wKL/organization-identifiers)
Project THOR organization ID workshops
Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI (OCLC report) http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2016/oclcresearch-organizational-identifiers-and-isni-2016.html
Linked Open Data platforms
Opaque Namespace http://www.opaquenamespace.org
Open Metadata Registry http://www,metadataregistry.org
Research ID lifecycle
OCLC report, Registering Researchers in Authority Files http://www.oclc.org/research/themes/research-collections/registering-researchers.html
See especially use cases 2.1-4.3 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-registering-researchers-2014-supplement-a.pdf
Information flow diagram http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-registering-researchers-2014-rid-info-flow-slide.pptx
Project THOR https://project-thor.eu/the-thor-mission/
Use ORCID as persistent identifier for person
Use GRID identifier for organizations ( partnered with Digital Science to create RDF from the Grid data for organizations).
VIVO in a Networked Research Ecosystem https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69015585
CASRAI CRedit contributor role taxonomy http://casrai.org/credit
CIFER identity registry functional model https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/cifer/Identity+Registry+Functional+Model
Reconciliation/Extraction
Bitcurator - using NLP Name Entity Recognition techniques to “mine” the names of people, organizations, places, …. If successful, then the next challenge would be identity resolution and this introduces authorities. (Funding application pending.) http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator/
Stanford: EPADD project. Extracting names/social networks from email archives. https://library.stanford.edu/projects/epadd
Europeana Semantic feature extraction market study https://app.assembla.com/spaces/europeana-r-d/wiki/Semantic_feature_extraction_-Market_Study
Aggregation, federation, integration
CTSASearch. VIVO federated search. (Dave Eichmann, University of Iowa) https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVOSearch/CTSA+search+prototypes
OCLC Entities - see press release https://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2015/201526dublin.en.html
ISNI - www.isni.org
VIAF - www.viaf.org
Internet2 TIER initiative https://www.internet2.edu/vision-initiatives/initiatives/trust-identity-education-research/
TIER Entity Registry Working Group https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/TIERENTREG/TIER+Entity+Registry+Working+Group
Cultural heritage
Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en
DPLA https://dp.la/
- Linked Data Finland http://www.ldf.fi/project.html