Abstract
A project team dubbed the Author Names Project has been working on an ambitious effort that aims to have a major impact on how libraries and publishers exchange data in support of discovery of new authors and their scholarly and creative content. The project team has been developing a proof-of-concept system to enable publishers to exchange Author Names/Identity metadata with libraries. This web application, which we are calling OAQ (Online Author Questionnaire), is open source and will utilize APIs wherever feasible to seek interoperability between identity registries, controlled vocabularies, and library databases (e.g., ORCID, ISNI, GeoNet Names, VIAF) as a way to create linkages with existing metadata and facilitate author name disambiguation at the start of the publication process.
Publishers and Libraries: Sharing Metadata Between Communities
A project team dubbed the Author Names Project has been working on an ambitious effort that aims to have a major impact on how libraries and publishers exchange data in support of discovery of new authors and their scholarly and creative content. The project team has been developing a proof-of-concept system to enable publishers to exchange Author Names/Identity metadata with libraries. This web application, which we are calling OAQ (Online Author Questionnaire), is open source and will utilize APIs wherever feasible to seek interoperability between identity registries, controlled vocabularies, and library databases (e.g., ORCID, ISNI, GeoNet Names, VIAF) as a way to create linkages with existing metadata and facilitate author name disambiguation at the start of the publication process.