From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:08:12 -0400
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Subject: Report of Harvard Workshop on Scholarly Attribution, May 16, 2012
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I was fortunate to be able to participate in an excellent symposium 
that Harvard University  hosted on May 16, 2012 exploring issues in 
contribution and attribution in scholarly communications. This 
connects in complex ways with work that is underway in developing new 
metrics for scholarly impact, author IDs and authority control, and 
the convergence of identity management, biography and bibliography. 
For me, one of the most interesting aspects of the discussions at the 
meeting and the subsequent report was the recognition that scholarly 
publishers need to explicitly structure metadata that characterizes 
scholarly contributions of contributors to publications, and that we 
face a major challenge in the development of norms and standards to 
facilitate this. The report from this meeting is now available, along 
with other background materials, at

http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/attribution_workshop


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI