Abstract
We built a researcher identifier management system called the Researcher Name Resolver (RNR) to assist with the name disambiguation of authors in digital libraries on the Web. RNR, which is designed to cover all researchers in Japan, is a Web-oriented service that can be openly connected with external scholastic systems. We expect it to be widely used for enriched scholarly communications. In this paper, we first outline the conceptual framework of RNR, which is jointly focused on researcher identifier management and Web resource linking. We based our researcher identifier scheme on the reuse of multiple sets of existing researcher identifiers belonging to the Japanese grant database KAKEN and the researcher directory ReaD & Researchmap. Researcher identifiers are associated by direct links to related resources on the Web through a combination of methods, including descriptive mapping, focused crawling on campus directories and researcher identification by matching names and affiliations. Second, we discuss our implementation of RNR based on this framework. Researcher identifiers construct uniform resource identifiers to show Web pages that describe researcher profiles and provide links to related external resources. We have adapted Web-friendly technologies--e.g., OpenSearch and the RDFs of Linked Data technology--in this implementation to provide Web-friendly services. Third, we discuss our application of RNR to a name disambiguation task for the search portal of the Japanese Institutional Repositories Online to determine how well the researcher identifier management system cooperates with external systems. Finally, we discuss lessons learned from the entire project as well as the future development directions we intend to take.
Highlights
The use of digital libraries has been increasingly spreading in the academic world, and more and more research articles and academic books are being archived on the Web
We present our Researcher Name Resolver (RNR),8 an identifier management system designed to cover all researchers in Japan
Its design consists of the researcher identifier framework, which is the core concept of identifier management, and of Web resource linking, for the added-value function
Summary
The use of digital libraries has been increasingly spreading in the academic world, and more and more research articles and academic books are being archived on the Web. Some digital library systems have started using the clustering approach to aid in author searches In these cases, the bibliographic metadata of papers are automatically clustered by means of computational algorithms. The Japanese digital library of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), CiNii Articles, takes the same approach with its author search function Identifier assignment is another name disambiguation approach, and it can be applied to the above digital library systems along with the clustering computation. We present our Researcher Name Resolver (RNR), an identifier management system designed to cover all researchers in Japan It is a Web-oriented service that can be openly connected with external scholarly systems. Its design consists of the researcher identifier framework, which is the core concept of identifier management, and of Web resource linking, for the added-value function This conceptual design is fundamental for implementing RNR. We discuss the results of our application of RNR to a name disambiguation task for the search portal of the Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO). We conclude the paper with a brief discussion of this study and a mention of the future directions of RNR development
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