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
>>
>
>
>
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>
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