Something like the UNT Name App strikes me as right in line with the
BIBFRAME Authorities model and its "lightweight abstraction layer" (
http://bibframe.org/documentation/bibframe-authority/). Imagine if every
research institution started maintaining a local authority file like this
and exposed it as RDF: the LOD-LAM linked data cloud could start to scale
up very quickly.

Mark, how is the UNT Name App being populated/maintained? Are there plans
to link these local identifiers to objects in the digital collections? Is
the source code available?

As for aggregating/cross-walking identifiers in general, I think Wikidata (
http://wikidata.org) holds a lot of potential (see, for example, the
Wikidata item for Barack Obama: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76).

Tim

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Phillips, Mark <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> We are including these identifiers in the authority records we create for
> our system.
>
> Here is an example record in the UNT Name App for me with some of these
> links.
> http://digital2.library.unt.edu/name/nm0000001/
>
> Here is a record with VIAF and LC identifiers integrated.
> http://digital2.library.unt.edu/name/nm0001756/
>
> Right now we are just storing these links and how they relate to our local
> identifiers for a person, organization, event, or building in our name app.
>
> Don't know if that is helpful or not.
>
> Mark
> ________________________________________
> From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Eric
> Lease Morgan [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 1:34 PM
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] orcid and researcherid and scopus, oh my
>
> ORDID and ResearcherID and Scopus, oh my!
>
> It is just me, or are there an increasing number of unique identifiers
> popping up in Library Land? A person can now be identified with any one of
> a number of URIs such as:
>
>   * ORCID - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-7800
>   * ResearcherID - http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-2062-2014
>   * Scopus - http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=25944695600
>   * VIAF - http://viaf.org/viaf/26290254
>   * LC - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94036700
>   * ISNI - http://isni.org/isni/0000000035290715
>
> At least these identifiers are (for the most part) “cool”.
>
> I have a new-to-me hammer, and these identifiers can play a nice role in
> linked data. For example:
>
>   @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
>   <http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831211213201> dc:creator
>     "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-7800" ,
>     "http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94036700" ,
>     "http://isni.org/isni/0000000035290715" ,
>     "http://viaf.org/viaf/26290254" .
>
> How have any of y’all used theses sorts of identifiers, and what problems
> do you think you will be able to solve by doing so? For example, I know of
> a couple of instances where these sort of identifiers are being put into
> MARC records.
>
> —
> Eric Morgan
>