A Rose by any other name: a new approach to name authority [ABSTRACT]
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By Amanda Hill

Abstract

Searching for author names in online systems is fraught with difficulty because there are so many possible variations for each name. So the Names Project promises to provide a much-needed solution for the many institutional repositories which are being developed. Amanda Hill describes the progress being made with this JISC-funded, joint British Library and Mimas project.

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Searching for author names in online systems is fraught with difficulty because there are so many possible variations for each name. So the Names Project promises to provide a much-needed solution for the many institutional repositories which are being developed. Amanda Hill describes the progress being made with this JISC-funded, joint British Library and Mimas project.

What’s inside

In some institutions the process of submitting an item to the repository is entirely controlled by repository staff members, but in over 80% of repositories any member of university staff can submit an item, which causes issues with consistency of author names. With JISC funding, the British Library and Mimas, at The University of Manchester, started the Names Project in July 2007 to investigate the feasibility of setting up a Names Authority Service using Zetoc data as the basis.

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