System Support for Name Authority Control Problem in Digital Libraries: OpenDBLP Approach

In maintaining Digital Libraries, having bibliographic data up-to-date is critical, yet often minor irregularities may cause information isolation. Unlike documents for which various kinds of unique ID systems exist (e.g., DOI, ISBN), other bibliographic entities such as author and publication venue do not have unique IDs. Therefore, in current Digital Libraries, tracking such bibliographic entities is not trivial. For instance, suppose a scholar changes her last name from A to B. Then, a user, searching for her publications under the new name B, cannot get old publications that appeared under A although they are by the same person. For such a scenario, since both A and B are the same person, it would be desirable for Digital Libraries to track their identities accordingly. In this paper, we investigate this problem known as name authority control, and present our system-oriented solution. We first identify three core building blocks that underlie the phenomenon, and show taxonomy wher...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ERCIMDL
• Authors: Yoojin Hong, Byung-Won On, Dongwon Lee
• Keywords: Bibliographic Entities, Digital Libraries, ERCIMDL 2004, Unique Ids