Hi all,
I'm improving the quality of the data available regarding article/book... citations for proteins in Bio4j and would like to figure out a way to differentiate two or more authors with the same name.
I'm not aware of the existence of a unique naming system for article authors neither of its implementation/use in databases such as Uniprot or Pubmed.
I'm not very optimistic with finding a way to do this but maybe someone of you knows of such system/standard or something similar.
Cheers,
Pablo
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Pablo Pareja
It is indeed a hairy problem. And it actually works the other way around as well. In some cases the same author is known by more than one name. The most promising initiative (with most support by large players in the field) currently is [?]ORCID[?].
Researchers can do some things to improve the problem themselves:
EDIT (because of Pablo's question for data access, below is the info I got about that)
If you want to use wikipeople you can acces it on:
http://cwaapp1.liacs.nl:2020/sparql
The query below will get you the uuid for author Barend Mons:
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Chris Evelo
ORCID seems like a good initiative, however I couldn't find any link to a database of ws available which could help me on this; (kind of the same with wikipeople). Thanks for the info anyways.
For ORCID that is true they are trying to bring everyone on one page and want to use databases from participants. Wikipeople is part of the conceptweb and should be available (we are using that in Open Phacts), I suppose as RDF endpoint. Will ask whether that is documented.
To get uuid for an author from WikiPeople you can use this
http://cwaapp1.liacs.nl:2020/sparql
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE {
?s rdf:type cw:fdeafbc6-5c44-11df-b0cb-001517ac506c .
?s cw:ccfd174d-3465-4656-b088-7a528532fadc "Barend" .
?s cw:b5fdcc4e-755e-41cd-8017-5775c103057e "Mons" .
OPTIONAL { ?s cw:d2496408-029e-4d58-9ad1-158bd0bfb1f8 ?affiliation . }
}
LIMIT 10
http://cwaapp1.liacs.nl:2020/sparql<br< a="">>
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { ?s rdf:type cw:fdeafbc6-5c44-11df-b0cb-001517ac506c . ?s cw:ccfd174d-3465-4656-b088-7a528532fadc "Barend" . ?s cw:b5fdcc4e-755e-41cd-8017-5775c103057e "Mons" . OPTIONAL { ?s cw:d2496408-029e-4d58-9ad1-158bd0bfb1f8 ?affiliation . } } LIMIT 10
It's a thorny problem and an ongoing area of research. There are various plans for a unique author naming system but even if implemented today, it won't solve the problem of author names published in the past.
The technical term for this is "author disambiguation", if you Google it you'll find quite a few techniques. I'm author on a paper using one such technique but it's still in review...
This is a decent review article on the topic: http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu/arrowsmith_uic/tutorial/ARIST_preprint.pdf
Thanks, I'll have a look at the article.
People at SCOPUS maintain a big database of author disambiguations, but their data is not freely usable. You should contact them and negotiate with them.
Thanks but I'm only interested in open source solutions to this.
Thanks but I'm only interested in open source solutions for this.
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Short answer: no, there is not.
@neilfws That's what I thought from the beginning but still wanted to give it a chance...
@neilfws By the way, if you post your comment as an answer I'll set it as the accepted answer. It's actually just as plain as that after seeing the other contributions.