EprintsAP scenario 10

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JISC Digital Repositories Programme Scenario

Title

Authority names

Author

JulieAllinson

Project

Eprints Application Profile Working Group

ID

EprintsAP_scenario_10

Date

2006-07-04

Description

Having harvested a number of repositories, an aggregator is faced with a number of authors with similar names. It is difficult to disambiguate these names without some additional analysis or information from other sources. If an authority name form was used, the author would be unambiguously identified.