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Authors and Identity Mgt Workshop Call for
Participation
CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION
Authors, Identity Management and the Scholary Communication System
A CNI Workshop
Washington, DC
Febuary 25, 2007
10AM-5PM
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is hosting an
invitational workshop for organizations actively involved in
developing systems, services, databases or policy frameworks
addressing author identity management within the scholarly
communications system and the academy.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore and, where appropriate,
begin efforts to coordinate a range of developments in historically
independent spheres that relate to the management of authorial
identity; in the new digital scholarly communications environment,
there is at least potential convergence among many of these
activities. For example:
- Name authority files as a key (and costly) component of
the apparatus of bibliographic control, are receiving new recognition
and new attention; efforts are underway to combine and merge such
files internationally, and the possibility of establishing common name
authority across the monographic and journal literature is being
reconsidered. There is also interest in being able to link more
biographical information to authority records.
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Publishers, abstracting and indexing
services, and managers of disciplinary repositories are
beginning to operate system-specific author identity management
systems. The publishers and A&I services also face potentially
large, complex and messy programs to upgrade their retrospective
files.
- Universities
and other organizations are starting to develop research management
systems and faculty profile management systems that include the
management of faculty bibliographies and biographies, and of faculty
work; they also need the ability to refer to authors that may move
from one institution to another.
- Developers of bibliometric and webmetric systems
continue to struggle with appropriate disambiguation and consolidation
of author names; this is also a problem for search services.
- Universities
are investing heavily in local identity management systems; these are
being federated within frameworks like Shibboleth, Liberty and Open
ID.
- Copyright management practices are changing, with
authors more commonly retaining more of their rights individually.
This means that being able to locate and contact authors is becoming
more important (see for example the recent Creative Commons Plus
licenses). Universities track former and current students and faculty
already for a wide variety of reasons. There are privacy and spam
protection issues to be considered here as well.
In order to have a productive discussion, the size of the workshop is
limited. Prospective participants should contact CNI Associate
Director Joan Lippincott (Joan@cni.org)) as soon as possible with a
few paragraphs on their interests and relevant work that they are
doing in this area; unless otherwise requested, these will be shared
with other participants and become part of the public conference
report. Selected attendees will be asked to give brief presentations
based on these submissions. CNI will provide conference facilities,
refreshments, and lunch; travel and lodging expenses are the
responsibility of the participants. As we accept participants, we'll
provide more detailed logistical information.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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