1. RLG Programs Karen Smith-Yoshimura OCLC Research CEAL, Philadelphia 24 March 2010 Cooperative Identities Hub

2. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 2 24 March 2010 Names touch everything…. Authors Publishers Institutions Musicians Families Government agencies Artists Fictional characters Actors Plant discoverers Corporations Pseudonyms Illustrators Editors Translators Correspondents Historical figures Directors Scientists Architects Animals Politicians Inventors Associations Cartographers

3. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 3 24 March 2010 Names can be ambiguous… “John Adams” … the US president? … the US composer? … the British mathematician & astronomer? … the British nuclear physicist? … or someone else?

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5. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 5 24 March 2010 Names depend on context… 蒋介石 蔣中正 شيانج كاي شيك US: Chiang Kai-shek France, Germany: Jiang Jieshi China, Japan: Arabic-speaking countries: Tamil: சங் கை செக்

6. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 6 24 March 2010 Information sufficient to identify and distinguish people and organizations is widely dispersed…

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10. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 10 24 March 2010 Networking Names Advisory Group oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-05.pdoclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-05.pdf

11. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 11 24 March 2010 Use case scenarios Academic libraries and scholars (5) Archivists and archival users (4) Institutional repositories (5)

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13. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 13 24 March 2010 Cooperative Identities Hub Framework to concatenate and merge authoritative information Gateway to all forms of names without preferring one form over another Use social networking model Provide a switch to extract relevant information for re-use in own contexts Create federated trust environment to authenticate and authorize contributors

14. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 14 24 March 2010 Hub objectives Increase metadata creation efficiency Easier to identify identity regardless of language or discipline Determine preferred form within own context Enable contributing agencies to augment own data resources Expose information about personal and corporate bodies beyond original contexts

15. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 15 24 March 2010 Hub functions Searches by both people and software applications Edit: Add information, merge, split, flag for deletion Create new entities Batch update Discussion Audit trail and rollback

16. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 16 24 March 2010 Some Hub data elements At least one form of name Life events, with dates if known: origin, place(s) of output, knowledge domains, institutional affiliations… Associated entities (role and what relationship is) At least some works Short biographical history Unique identifiers from each source

17. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 17 24 March 2010 What do we have at OCLC? A vision of an Identities Hub Thousands of libraries, archives, and museums WorldCat bibliographic & holdings data LC/NACO Name Authority File Other library authority files WorldCat Identities A page for each name in WorldCat Virtual International Authority File A merge of twenty national-level authority files Participation in other names efforts Support for linked data

18. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 18 24 March 2010 WorldCat Identities

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24. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 24 24 March 2010 Virtual International Authority File Matches names across 20 authority files  13 million name records  10 million personnas Jointly run by LC, BnF, DNB and OCLC (hosted by OCLC)

25. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 25 24 March 2010 One persona, many representations … http://viaf.org/viaf/9521656 5

26. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 26 24 March 2010 … with lots of alternate forms Some of the over 200+ alternate forms

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28. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 28 24 March 2010 Participation in other names efforts ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) Driven by ‘rights’ holders and publishers Need standard way to exchange information OCLC participating in standards effort, matching test files — VIAF may be used as base file. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Driven by scientific publishers, primarily authors of STM journal articles Need to exchange information, most “social”. OCLC participating in group

29. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 29 24 March 2010 Linked data For everything you want to talk about Give it a URI Provide useful information at that URI Talk about things Not just descriptions of things Use structure (e.g. metadata) Link to other resources Bridge the gap between our technologies and the rest of the world’s

30. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 30 24 March 2010 Taking off?

31. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 31 24 March 2010 Zhang Yimou: What could be Wikipedia NY Times BBC National Library of China ISNI/ ORCID A&I Metadata Library Catalogs VIAF Library Catalogs

32. Research CEAL, Philadelphia 32 24 March 2010 Resources Networking Names (report) oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-05.pdf Webinar recording: www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20090721ksy.wmv www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20090721ksy.wmv VIAF: viaf.orgviaf.org WorldCat Identities: worldcat.org/identitiesworldcat.org/identities Blogs: HangingTogether.org outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/