Author Identifiers in Scholarly Repositories
Digital Libraries
2011-03-25 v1
Abstract
Bibliometric and usage-based analyses and tools highlight the value of information about scholarship contained within the network of authors, articles and usage data. Less progress has been made on populating and using the author side of this network than the article side, in part because of the difficulty of unambiguously identifying authors. I briefly review a sample of author identifier schemes, and consider use in scholarly repositories. I then describe preliminary work at arXiv to implement public author identifiers, services based on them, and plans to make this information useful beyond the boundaries of arXiv.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.1345,
title = {Author Identifiers in Scholarly Repositories},
author = {Simeon Warner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1345},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
10 pages. Based on a presentation given at Open Repositories 2009