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Has anyone got any idea as to how to make this trend (efforts by ISI and
Scopus) grow?
Is competition between the two companies sufficient to ensure achieving
the needed goal?
Is there a way to go faster and reach wider circles?
Perhaps a new list to discuss issues for those who are interested?
Best,
Jean-Claude
Le vendredi 18 août 2006 à 12:30 -0700, bq a écrit :
> i did a newsbreak on the infotoday.com site in late july that tracked some commercial author disambiguation efforts underway:
>
> Authors, Authors: Thomson Scientific and Elsevier Scopus Search Them Outhttp://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060724-2.shtml
>
> as i recall, thomson scientific/isi is assigning permanent author tagging.
>
> bq
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Michael Kurtz <kurtz_at_CFA.HARVARD.EDU>
> >Sent: Aug 18, 2006 12:13 PM
> >To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> >Subject: Re: about true names ... searching and measuring.
> >
> >The problem with associating names with individuals is one of long
> >standing. Because people remain unique this is at least in principle a
> >solvable problem (by the unique PAI method, as Jean Claude suggests).
> >For organizations, which can merge, move, break up into parts, and a
> >number of other equally difficult actions, the problem is not solvable.
> >
> >The Smithsonian/NASA ADS addresses the issue of an individual's names by
> >first keeping the physics and the astronomy databases separate, so to
> >minimize the overlapp of similar names, and by maintaining a list of
> >name synonyms, so a person looking for papers by M.L. Hazen will also
> >find papers by M.L. Hazen-Liller and by M.H. Liller.
> >
> >The problem with name overlaps is really quite severe, and begs for a
> >solution, such as the PAI. The link, which shows all the exact names
> >for all persons named Z. Wang in the ADS physics data base (with the
> >number of papers corresponding to that exact name in parenthesis), shows
> >the severity of the problem.
> >
> >http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/list_connect?version=1&aut_xct=YES&db_key=PHY&aut_list=wang%2C+z
> >
> >--
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Received on Fri Aug 18 2006 - 21:17:12 BST