Open Bibliographic Data and Author Claiming James R. Griffin III 1, 3 and Thomas Krichel 1, 2, 3 1 Long Island University 2 Novosibirsk State University 3 Open Library Society ORCID Participants Meeting May 18 th 2011

About Me... This is my first presentation at such a notable meeting. I am a 24-year veteran of personal identification problems. I am an MSLIS student of Thomas Krichel.

The Structure of the Presentation Open bibliographic data: 3 lib Claiming authorship for bibliographic items: AuthorClaim A new service: AuthorProfile

Open Bibliographic Data There is a movement towards open bibliographic data. The main player is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Bibliographic Data Working Group. Thomas and I are members of this group. But what precisely is open bibliographic data?

Principles and Practice The OKFN’s working group has developed principles for open bibliographic data: The adoption of these principles is slow. At this point, the benefits of adopting these principles are uncertain We want to make the benefits of open bibliographic data more apparent. We work for The Open Library Society.

The Open Library Society The Open Library Society (OLS) aggregates bibliographic data without imposing legal constraints upon the usage of this data. The OLS uses this data to develop services that benefit the contributing parties. This mirrors the development of RePEc, since 1993.

“A RePEc for All Disciplines” RePEc bibliographic data → 3 lib The RePEc Author Service → AuthorClaim EDIRC → ARIW

3lib 3 lib builds an aggregate of freely available bibliographic data. It is a project by the OLS sponsored by the OKFN. About 35 million records from collections such as: Pubmed OpenLibrary DBLP RePEc In the near future, 20 million records from institutional repositories will be added.

3lib Data Elements Each record in 3 lib contains at least: Title Author name expressions A link to the item’s web page A unique identifier

AuthorClaim AuthorClaim is an “authorship claiming service” for the data aggregated by 3 lib. This service is modeled after the RePEc Author Service. It uses the same software. AuthorClaim has been running since early It predates the ORCID initiative.

Author Claiming Author claiming records are not author identification records. We don’t want to go into the difference here.

A Sample Author Claim Record id: pbi1 name variations: “Geoffrey Bilder” “G. Bilder” “Bilder, G.” “Bilder, Geoffrey” isauthorof: info:lib/elis:856 hasnoconnectionto: info:lib/pubmed: info:lib/pubmed:

AuthorProfile AuthorProfile is a new service that brings together 3 lib data and AuthorClaim records. The development of this service in progress since fall The website is:

Vision and Problem Vision For an author of which the name is known, show all papers. Create reusable CV-like data for academic authors Problem Bibliographic records contain author names only

“Auversion” We combine all of the papers that have the same author name expression into one record. Example: All papers mentioning an author “J. Smith”. We call that “auversion”. “Auversion” visualizes the problem of lack of author identification.

Navigation One can navigate through these “auverted” files by coauthorship. This translates into browsing web pages on the AuthorProfile website. We want to implement two additional navigational features: Horizontal navigation Vertical navigation

Horizontal Navigation Horizontal navigation links name expressions which may represent the same author. For example: “F. LeFevre" → “Fred Lèfevre" This feature has not yet been implemented.

Vertical Navigation Vertical navigation explores coauthorship of registered authors. We link from author name expression pages of “auverted” files to the closest registered author. Example: Gabriele Toietta (pto2) ← "Giuseppe Orlando" ← "Andrea Cristofaro”

Integration with ORCID There is no technical reason that AuthorClaim is the only source of registered authors. If ORCID data references bibliographic data, then AuthorProfile can use it. Equally, AuthorClaim records may be used within the ORCID system.

AuthorProfile: Q&A Thank you for your attention Questions?Clarifications?