tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131567052120864417.post5535677698956308157..comments2014-06-12T11:37:12.943+10:00Comments on The NicNames Project: CommentsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131567052120864417.post-59114881800152411382008-11-28T10:13:00.000+11:002008-11-28T10:13:00.000+11:00Norman, thank you for your comment. We were aware...Norman, thank you for your comment. We were aware of ResearcherID, ISNI and PILIN, but I for one didn't know about the NISO Institutional Identifiers work. So, I have a little more research to do ...Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15843260426595906946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131567052120864417.post-30863356864046709472008-11-26T03:56:00.000+11:002008-11-26T03:56:00.000+11:00You may already be aware of the following, which a...You may already be aware of the following, which appear highly relevant to this work:<BR/><BR/>Existing work on Identifiers for Institutions, Public Identities, and Researchers – see recent webinar http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/identifiers (If you have any trouble viewing this archive, please contact Karen Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel@niso.org.). This covered an introduction of existing projects and standards, and details on three projects: <BR/>1. NISO Institutional Identifiers Working Group. http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2 . Intending to "develop a standard for an institutional identifier that can be implemented in all library and publishing environments. The standard will include definition of the metadata required to be collected with the identifier and what uses can be made of that metadata". There are in fact already several used to various degrees (SAN, DUNS, ISIL etc). This is designed to overcome the lack of a common way of identifying the institution with its multiplicity of libraries, departments, campuses or offices. Internally some publisher already do this (the pioneer being Elsevier's internal Sales Information System); a similar shared solution is now available from Ringgold. <BR/>2. Researcher Id. www.researcherid.com. A Thomson product for Web of Science - not a formal standard at all; intended as a tool for disambiguating and de-duplicating author entries in Thomson's Web of Science.<BR/>3. ISNI. International Standard Name Identifier. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee.html?commid=48836. <BR/>Inspired by CISAC's (rights organisation) internal system for the music industry, and guided by the work on a party identifier done by Interparty (www.interparty.org); taking the Interparty work as a cue, it attempts to be a dumb number and intended use is to simply match entries in different databases and establish a re-usable link. Not yet finalised but at draft stage but not yet clear what business model can support it. Focus is on names of creators and characters (authors, pseudonyms, personas) but in principle extensible. <BR/><BR/>In Australia, the excellent work of the PILIN project (is worth noting re persistent identification infrastructure: https://www.pilin.net.au/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com