Personal name identification in the practice of digital repositories
Program: electronic library and information systems
ISSN: 0033-0337
Article publication date: 1 July 2006
Abstract
Purpose
To propose improvements to the identification of authors' names in digital repositories.
Design/methodology/approach
Analysis of current name authorities in digital resources, particularly in digital repositories, and analysis of some features of existing repository applications.
Findings
This paper finds that the variations of authors' names have negatively affected the retrieval capability of digital repositories. Two possible solutions include using composite identifiers that combine author name, publication date, and author affiliation, and also asking authors to input the variants of their name, if any, at the time of depositing articles.
Originality/value
This is the first time that the approach of authors self‐depositing their name variations is proposed. This approach will be able to reduce confusions in name identification.
Keywords
Citation
Xia, J. (2006), "Personal name identification in the practice of digital repositories", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 40 No. 3, pp. 256-267. https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330610681330
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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