Inventory of related work

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

• Web site https://jisccasraipilot.jiscinvolve.org/wp/working-groups/org-id/ 

• Use cases http://www.clax.co.uk/Org-IDs-Jisc_CASRAI-UK/Review-of-orgIDs-and-usecases-Clax-for-Jisc-CASRAI.pdf 

• ORCID/Datacite organization identifiers effort (Josh Brown, Patricia Cruse - Force11 workshop, https://force2016.sched.org/event/5wKL/organization-identifiers)

• Project THOR organization ID workshops

• https://project-thor.eu/2016/06/21/july-7-2016-thor-workshop-identifiers-infrastructure-impact-and-innovation/

• https://project-thor.eu/2016/06/06/organisation-ids-for-scholarly-communications-where-next/

• Discussion document: tps://docs.google.com/document/d/17DdXAOFW8VqqXKBi5VnuDW868USuUjBIWxRMe3Fh6rs/edit

• Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI (OCLC report) http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2016/oclcresearch-organizational-identifiers-and-isni-2016.html

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 

• another version of diagram

• Project THOR https://project-thor.eu/the-thor-mission/ 

• OpenVIVO.org

• 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

• Use cases: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10rWFMEfXl8vVJwphLViKscue9mZCdcT19PqaO-orEm0/edit#gid=0

• CASRAI CRedit contributor role taxonomy http://casrai.org/credit

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 

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