Registering researchers in authority files
By: Karen Smith-Yoshimura [and 13 others]
Contributors: Altman, Micah, author; Conlon, Michael, 1953- author; Cristán, Ana Lupe, author; Dawson, Laura, author; Dunham, Joanne, author; Hickey, Thomas Butler, 1947- author; Hook, Daniel, 1977- author; Horstmann, Wolfram, 1971- author; MacEwan, Andrew, author; Schreur, Philip Evan, author; Smart, Laura J., 1971- author; Wacker, Melanie, author; Woutersen, Saskia, author; OCLC Research; OCLC Research. Registering Researchers in Authority Files Task Group
Publisher: OCLC Research
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dublin, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781556534874; 9781556534881
Subjects: Name authority records (Information retrieval); Bibliographical citations; Standards
Description: The Registering Researchers in Authority Files Task Group has examined a range of researcher registration and profiling services. A number of approaches to providing authoritative researcher IDs have emerged, but they tend to be limited by discipline, affiliation, or publisher. The Task Group developed use cases and functional requirements for researcher ID management systems and then compared the functional requirements against a sample of currently available systems to identify gaps, challenges and opportunities. A key objective of this work was to understand how the various types of researcher ID schemes can be leveraged to support improved discoverability of research output for individual authors and institutions.
Notes: "October 2014."

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Affiliations:  Micah Altman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michael Conlon (University of Florida), Ana Lupe Cristán (Library of Congress), Laura Dawson (Bowker), Joanne Dunham (University of Leicester), Thom Hickey (OCLC Research), Daniel Hook (Symplectic Limited), Wolfram Horstmann (University of Oxford), Andrew MacEwan (British Library), Philip Schreur (Stanford University), Laura Smart (California Institute of Technology), Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC Research), Melanie Wacker (Columbia University), Saskia Woutersen (University of Amsterdam).

Includes bibliographical references.

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Issued to accompany the Task Group report: Supplement A: Use Cases ; Supplement B: Research Networking Systems Characteristics Profiles ; Supplement C: Excel Workbook.

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