Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
Two other projects that are worth taking a look at are VIVO [1] and BibApp [2]. Both take the approach of enabling institutions to manage information about their faculty, which can then be federated more widely. I guess the reality is that there will be lots of identifiers for faculty, and simple systems that allow them to be collaboratively and meaningfully linked together are a good way forward. //Ed [1] http://vivoweb.org/ [2] http://bibapp.org/ On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) pbutl...@umw.edu wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions! Kevin's excellent email confirms my suspicions. I am working on plans to transform our digital repository to a more broadly defined IR, so that will likely be our focus down the road. However, any solution that requires faculty input without an immediate, tangle benefit will likely gain slow traction. I will pass along the suggestions and go from there. Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:50 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Hi Paul, I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area presently. In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem (and author identity management more generally). You can read more about it from the announcement here [1], but the idea was to bring a number of the larger actors (Web of Science, arXiv, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, LC/NACO, and a few more) involved in managing authorial identity together to learn about the work being done, and to discuss improved ways, to disambiguate scholarly identities and then diffuse and share that information within and across the library and scholarly publishing realms. Clifford Lynch, who moderated the meeting, will publish a post-workshop report in a few weeks [2]. Perhaps of additional interest, [2] also contains a link to the report of a similar workshop held in London about international author identity. Inititatives like ISNI [3] and ORCID [4], which mint identifiers for (public, authorial) identities, and VIAF, which has done so much to aggregate the authority records of the participating libraries (while also assigning them an identifier), are essential to disambiguating one identity from another and assigning unique identifiers to those identities. For identifiers like ORCIDs, the faculty member's sponsoring organization might acquire the ORCID for him/her, after which the faculty member will/may know and use the identifier in situations such as grant applications, publishing, etc. (though it might also be early days for this activity also). Part of the process, however, is diffusing the identifier across the library and scholarly publishing domains, all the while matching it with the correct identity (and identifer) in another system. That said, when ISNIs and ORCIDs and, perhaps, VIAF identifiers start to make their ways into Web of Science, arXiv, LC/NACO file, ! an! d many other places, we - developers looking to creating RSS feeds of author publications across services but without having to deal with same-name problems or variants - might then have the hook we need to generate RSS feeds for author publications from such services as JSTOR, EBSCO, arXiv, Web Of Science, etc. Alternatively, you'd have to get your faculty members to submit their entire publication history to academia.edu (as Ethan suggested), after which the community would have to request an RSS feed of that history, or an institutional repository (as Chad suggested), but I understand these types of things are an uphill battle with (often busy, underpaid) faculty. Cordially, Kevin [1] http://www.cni.org/news/cni-workshop-scholarly-id/ [2] https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113744.html [3] http://www.isni.org/ [4] http://about.orcid.org/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Butler (pbutler3) Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
Hi, Paul. As Ed said, BibApp is one approach to addressing your problem. We've been using it and hacking on it at KU Medical Center for a few years now. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Jason - Reply message - From: Ed Summers e...@pobox.com To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 8:00 am Two other projects that are worth taking a look at are VIVO [1] and BibApp [2]. Both take the approach of enabling institutions to manage information about their faculty, which can then be federated more widely. I guess the reality is that there will be lots of identifiers for faculty, and simple systems that allow them to be collaboratively and meaningfully linked together are a good way forward. //Ed [1] http://vivoweb.org/ [2] http://bibapp.org/ On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) pbutl...@umw.edu wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions! Kevin's excellent email confirms my suspicions. I am working on plans to transform our digital repository to a more broadly defined IR, so that will likely be our focus down the road. However, any solution that requires faculty input without an immediate, tangle benefit will likely gain slow traction. I will pass along the suggestions and go from there. Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:50 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Hi Paul, I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area presently. In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem (and author identity management more generally). You can read more about it from the announcement here [1], but the idea was to bring a number of the larger actors (Web of Science, arXiv, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, LC/NACO, and a few more) involved in managing authorial identity together to learn about the work being done, and to discuss improved ways, to disambiguate scholarly identities and then diffuse and share that information within and across the library and scholarly publishing realms. Clifford Lynch, who moderated the meeting, will publish a post-workshop report in a few weeks [2]. Perhaps of additional interest, [2] also contains a link to the report of a similar workshop held in London about international author identity. Inititatives like ISNI [3] and ORCID [4], which mint identifiers for (public, authorial) identities, and VIAF, which has done so much to aggregate the authority records of the participating libraries (while also assigning them an identifier), are essential to disambiguating one identity from another and assigning unique identifiers to those identities. For identifiers like ORCIDs, the faculty member's sponsoring organization might acquire the ORCID for him/her, after which the faculty member will/may know and use the identifier in situations such as grant applications, publishing, etc. (though it might also be early days for this activity also). Part of the process, however, is diffusing the identifier across the library and scholarly publishing domains, all the while matching it with the correct identity (and identifer) in another system. That said, when ISNIs and ORCIDs and, perhaps, VIAF identifiers start to make their ways into Web of Science, arXiv, LC/NACO file, ! an! d many other places, we - developers looking to creating RSS feeds of author publications across services but without having to deal with same-name problems or variants - might then have the hook we need to generate RSS feeds for author publications from such services as JSTOR, EBSCO, arXiv, Web Of Science, etc. Alternatively, you'd have to get your faculty members to submit their entire publication history to academia.edu (as Ethan suggested), after which the community would have to request an RSS feed of that history, or an institutional repository (as Chad suggested), but I understand these types of things are an uphill battle with (often busy, underpaid) faculty. Cordially, Kevin [1] http://www.cni.org/news/cni-workshop-scholarly-id/ [2] https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113744.html [3] http://www.isni.org/ [4] http://about.orcid.org/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Butler (pbutler3) Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject
[CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link to their publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty profile webpage (in WordPress). I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the same name and variants in name citation. It appears Web of Science has author authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do not subscribe to WoS and am waiting for a trial to test. What we need is something similar to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers We can ask faculty members to upload their own citations and then just auto link out to something like Serials Solutions' Journal Finder, but that is likely not sustainable. So, any suggestions - particularly free or low cost solutions. Thanks! Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
It appears that academia.edu still does not have an Atom/RSS feed for member activity and listed publications, but I think such a feature would be very useful. If there was a concerted effort to demand such a service, academia.edu might consider implementing it. Ethan On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) pbutl...@umw.eduwrote: Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link to their publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty profile webpage (in WordPress). I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the same name and variants in name citation. It appears Web of Science has author authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do not subscribe to WoS and am waiting for a trial to test. What we need is something similar to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers We can ask faculty members to upload their own citations and then just auto link out to something like Serials Solutions' Journal Finder, but that is likely not sustainable. So, any suggestions - particularly free or low cost solutions. Thanks! Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
You could run an Eprintshttp://www.eprints.org/ instance (or, I assume, some other Institutional Repository software), which can output a list of the publications from an individual author as an rss feed. Not too much custom work required, if I remember correctly, though it has been a while. An example being: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/view/people/AABEY66.html http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/cgi/exportview/people/AABEY66/Atom/AABEY66.xml Running an entire IR just for that might be overkill, but it will certainly do that job, and it is free, and relatively painless to get up and running. Chad Chad Nelson Web Services Programmer University Library Georgia State University e: cnelso...@gsu.edu t: 404 413 2771 My Calendar From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Paul Butler (pbutler3) [pbutl...@umw.edu] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link to their publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty profile webpage (in WordPress). I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the same name and variants in name citation. It appears Web of Science has author authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do not subscribe to WoS and am waiting for a trial to test. What we need is something similar to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers We can ask faculty members to upload their own citations and then just auto link out to something like Serials Solutions' Journal Finder, but that is likely not sustainable. So, any suggestions - particularly free or low cost solutions. Thanks! Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
Hi Paul, I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area presently. In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem (and author identity management more generally). You can read more about it from the announcement here [1], but the idea was to bring a number of the larger actors (Web of Science, arXiv, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, LC/NACO, and a few more) involved in managing authorial identity together to learn about the work being done, and to discuss improved ways, to disambiguate scholarly identities and then diffuse and share that information within and across the library and scholarly publishing realms. Clifford Lynch, who moderated the meeting, will publish a post-workshop report in a few weeks [2]. Perhaps of additional interest, [2] also contains a link to the report of a similar workshop held in London about international author identity. Inititatives like ISNI [3] and ORCID [4], which mint identifiers for (public, authorial) identities, and VIAF, which has done so much to aggregate the authority records of the participating libraries (while also assigning them an identifier), are essential to disambiguating one identity from another and assigning unique identifiers to those identities. For identifiers like ORCIDs, the faculty member's sponsoring organization might acquire the ORCID for him/her, after which the faculty member will/may know and use the identifier in situations such as grant applications, publishing, etc. (though it might also be early days for this activity also). Part of the process, however, is diffusing the identifier across the library and scholarly publishing domains, all the while matching it with the correct identity (and identifer) in another system. That said, when ISNIs and ORCIDs and, perhaps, VIAF identifiers start to make their ways into Web of Science, arXiv, LC/NACO file, an! d many other places, we - developers looking to creating RSS feeds of author publications across services but without having to deal with same-name problems or variants - might then have the hook we need to generate RSS feeds for author publications from such services as JSTOR, EBSCO, arXiv, Web Of Science, etc. Alternatively, you'd have to get your faculty members to submit their entire publication history to academia.edu (as Ethan suggested), after which the community would have to request an RSS feed of that history, or an institutional repository (as Chad suggested), but I understand these types of things are an uphill battle with (often busy, underpaid) faculty. Cordially, Kevin [1] http://www.cni.org/news/cni-workshop-scholarly-id/ [2] https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113744.html [3] http://www.isni.org/ [4] http://about.orcid.org/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Butler (pbutler3) Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link to their publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty profile webpage (in WordPress). I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the same name and variants in name citation. It appears Web of Science has author authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do not subscribe to WoS and am waiting for a trial to test. What we need is something similar to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers We can ask faculty members to upload their own citations and then just auto link out to something like Serials Solutions' Journal Finder, but that is likely not sustainable. So, any suggestions - particularly free or low cost solutions. Thanks! Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
You might take a look at possibilities using Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/ My quick examination didn't reveal obvious RSS feed options, but an advantage that Mendeley has over something like academia.edu is that library staff could create and curate lists of faculty publications, rather than faculty having to do it themselves from personal accounts. I've found it pretty easy to add find and add citations to Mendeley using their existing database and other tools. If they don't support RSS directly, might you be able to use feedburner or a similar tool to create a feed based on their content? Just some Friday morning brainstorming ideas ... Shirley Shirley Lincicum http://shirley.alptown.com On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) pbutl...@umw.eduwrote: Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link to their publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty profile webpage (in WordPress). I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the same name and variants in name citation. It appears Web of Science has author authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do not subscribe to WoS and am waiting for a trial to test. What we need is something similar to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers We can ask faculty members to upload their own citations and then just auto link out to something like Serials Solutions' Journal Finder, but that is likely not sustainable. So, any suggestions - particularly free or low cost solutions. Thanks! Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
Thank you all for your suggestions! Kevin's excellent email confirms my suspicions. I am working on plans to transform our digital repository to a more broadly defined IR, so that will likely be our focus down the road. However, any solution that requires faculty input without an immediate, tangle benefit will likely gain slow traction. I will pass along the suggestions and go from there. Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:50 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Hi Paul, I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area presently. In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem (and author identity management more generally). You can read more about it from the announcement here [1], but the idea was to bring a number of the larger actors (Web of Science, arXiv, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, LC/NACO, and a few more) involved in managing authorial identity together to learn about the work being done, and to discuss improved ways, to disambiguate scholarly identities and then diffuse and share that information within and across the library and scholarly publishing realms. Clifford Lynch, who moderated the meeting, will publish a post-workshop report in a few weeks [2]. Perhaps of additional interest, [2] also contains a link to the report of a similar workshop held in London about international author identity. Inititatives like ISNI [3] and ORCID [4], which mint identifiers for (public, authorial) identities, and VIAF, which has done so much to aggregate the authority records of the participating libraries (while also assigning them an identifier), are essential to disambiguating one identity from another and assigning unique identifiers to those identities. For identifiers like ORCIDs, the faculty member's sponsoring organization might acquire the ORCID for him/her, after which the faculty member will/may know and use the identifier in situations such as grant applications, publishing, etc. (though it might also be early days for this activity also). Part of the process, however, is diffusing the identifier across the library and scholarly publishing domains, all the while matching it with the correct identity (and identifer) in another system. That said, when ISNIs and ORCIDs and, perhaps, VIAF identifiers start to make their ways into Web of Science, arXiv, LC/NACO file, an! d many other places, we - developers looking to creating RSS feeds of author publications across services but without having to deal with same-name problems or variants - might then have the hook we need to generate RSS feeds for author publications from such services as JSTOR, EBSCO, arXiv, Web Of Science, etc. Alternatively, you'd have to get your faculty members to submit their entire publication history to academia.edu (as Ethan suggested), after which the community would have to request an RSS feed of that history, or an institutional repository (as Chad suggested), but I understand these types of things are an uphill battle with (often busy, underpaid) faculty. Cordially, Kevin [1] http://www.cni.org/news/cni-workshop-scholarly-id/ [2] https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113744.html [3] http://www.isni.org/ [4] http://about.orcid.org/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Butler (pbutler3) Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link to their publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty profile webpage (in WordPress). I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the same name and variants in name citation. It appears Web of Science has author authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do not subscribe to WoS and am waiting for a trial to test. What we need is something similar to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers We can ask faculty members to upload
