A. Rose by any other name
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The Names Project, as presented at Internet Librarian International, 15 October 2010.
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- 15. JISC Conference, 2010 Mimas British Library Millions of names of active researchers Only initials, not full forenames
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Notes de l'éditeur
- Mr Chang whose interest is in collecting surnames from the members of the present day Onomastic Society. It transpires that Mr Chang is a time-traveller, who has come back from a point a quarter of a million years in the future, where everyone has the same surname. I think my friend wanted me to call the project the Chang project. But I decided that it might take a bit too much explaining, so I went for the rather more boring and descriptive name that you see here. Having said that, I must say that I don’t find names boring at all. They are a fascinating aspect of our identity and people nearly always have stories relating to them. For example, My family used to go in for rhyming couples – my parents were Bill and Jill and we had a set of elderly cousins called Horace and Doris.
- In my family, we seemed to go in for rhyming couples – on the left we have Doris and Horace and on the right are my parents, Bill and Jill. You may be relieved to learn that they do not share my surname. So, names can be entertaining - they can also be problematic. I explained to my dad about Amazon wish lists one year and sent him the link to mine so that he could order me a book for my birthday. With the confidence only a novice Internet user will show, he ignored my link and did a search on Amazon for wish lists under my name. When he found an Amanda Hill who lived in Sale, Cheshire, he was sure that he’d got the right one. I’m sure you know where this story is going. I received three mildly interesting books which weren’t on my list. A quick look at Amazon’s wish list today shows the extent of the problem with my name:
- 38 hits for Amanda Hill. I had a look to see what I might receive if my father made the same mistake today…
- Name mix-up – a little inconvenient for me, in that I ended up with three books I didn’t really want. More inconvenient still for the other Amanda Hill who lived in Sale – her books had been removed from her wish list as purchased, but I had no way of explaining to her what had happened. I still worry that she’s sitting up there in Sale, wondering who bought her books for her and whether she’s ever going to get them.
- In this case, sharing a name with someone else is really a life or death issue. In the Names project, our main area of concern is with the reputations of UK researchers and research institutions. Perhaps not quite life or death, but maybe sink or swim, especially in these straitened times.
- She’s never written a book, so there isn’t a traditional library authority file for her. She might also be known as Lexie to the clients she visited while funding her way through her PhD. But we don’t need to go into that here.
- Linked data principles Use uniform resource identifiers as names for things Use HTTP URIs so people can look them up Provide useful information at the URI Include links to other URIs so they can discover more things
- Mimas/BL – collaboration might make you think of a successful mimas service – the Zetoc table of contents service, which holds data about articles in thousands of journals. And, as a consequence, the names of active researchers.
- Other sources of data – e.g. RAE 2008 data now available on web.
- A still from one of a series of video sketches by a group called ‘The Great Samaritans’. I saw it on the home page of the Twitpic service a few weeks ago and immediately went to howmanyofme.com to see how many Robert Pattinsons there might be in the US. Only seven.