http://ptsefton.com/2009/08/18/a-few-discoveries.htm This seems to be a workblog Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://ptsefton.com/2009/08/18/a-few-discoveries.htm/comment-page-1#comment-633 Christiaan Kortekaas Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:04:34 +0000 http://ptsefton.com/2009/08/18/a-few-discoveries.htm#comment-633 With Fez we allow author name strings to be tagged on publications with Fez author ids. We link these author ids to staff numbers, Thomson ResearcherIDs, fez user account login ids. Helps a lot with very common names, research reporting and general searching (and fez solr faceting) of the repository for an authors true list of publications. I can't believe all repository software packages don't offer this sort of thing, or do they? Not a few years ago when we were deciding which software package to go with, and this is one of the main reasons we decided to go our own way. This idea of putting an identifier on an author name string on a publication seems surprisingly rare even on journal publisher sites. Researcher ID looks like it will help here, especially with the latest version. But i still think this should be done inside the repository as well, not just by an external service so you can link all the ID providers together, among other benefits. With Fez we allow author name strings to be tagged on publications with Fez author ids. We link these author ids to staff numbers, Thomson ResearcherIDs, fez user account login ids. Helps a lot with very common names, research reporting and general searching (and fez solr faceting) of the repository for an authors true list of publications. I can’t believe all repository software packages don’t offer this sort of thing, or do they? Not a few years ago when we were deciding which software package to go with, and this is one of the main reasons we decided to go our own way. This idea of putting an identifier on an author name string on a publication seems surprisingly rare even on journal publisher sites. Researcher ID looks like it will help here, especially with the latest version. But i still think this should be done inside the repository as well, not just by an external service so you can link all the ID providers together, among other benefits.

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