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will be there just now. Renate On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:56:28 +0100 Richard Wallis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > What distinguishes one from another? > > The communities behind them, the [often overlapping] communities they > are intended to serve, and the technical implementation. > > As a librarian, why should I care? > > I would, as a non-librarian, suggest that once you are happy with > the ‘authority’ of them, you shouldn’t have to care. Ideally, we are not > there yet, systems should be flexible and accommodating enough to link to > any appropriate authority. > > I will probably get flamed for over generalisation here but - VIAF is > an aggregation of National Libraries Authority files. - ISNI is a more > publisher focused but similar effort. - OCID comes from and and tries to > serve individual academic institutions, their researchers and falsity > authors. > > > authority control |simple identifier |Linked Data capability > +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ > VIAF | X | X | X | > +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ > ORCID | | X | | > +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ > ISNI | X | X | X | > +-----------------+------------------+--------------+ > > ~Richard > > > On 20 June 2014 15:42, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Richard Wallis < >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> > ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name >> variants >> > and changes them into related name and generates related identity >> records. >> > It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the next few weeks. >> > This should change Currer Bell into a related name of Charlotte Brontë . >> >> >> Please humor me as I ask this question again. What is the difference >> between ISNI and other identifiers systems (like ORCID, etc.)? What >> distinguishes one from another? As a librarian, why should I care? Was as a >> faculty member/scholar, why should I care? Under what context is one >> identifier expected to be used instead of another? Maybe a picture/graph is >> in order: >> >> authority control simple pointer >> +-----------------+--------------+ >> VIAF | X | | >> +-----------------+--------------+ >> ORCID | | X | >> +-----------------+--------------+ >> ISNI | | | >> +-----------------+--------------+ >> >> — >> Eric Lease Morgan >> > > > > -- > Richard Wallis > Founder, Data Liberate > http://dataliberate.com > Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005 > > Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis > Skype: richard.wallis1 > Twitter: @rjw Renate Morgenstern Tel. 2072607