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Author identification in economics, ... and beyond
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Identifying authorship correctly and efficiently is a difficult problem when the literature is abundant, but poorly recorded. Homonyms are tedious to differentiate. This paper describes how the field of economics has organized itself with respect to author identification. We describe the RePEc project with a special emphasis on the RePEc Author Service. We then discuss how the concept is currently being expanded to the entire scientific body with the AuthorClaim project.
... The use of CRIS-CERIF guarantees that enrichment data created at one RIS can be easily moved, visualized and re-used outside the originating information system at other RIS or at an Institutional Repository (IR). The demonstrated approach to make a research information system semantically enrichable is based on the following background: a) the CERIF Semantics [4]; b) the web annotation and the open annotation specifications 1 from W3C; c) taxonomy of scientific relationships which can exist between research information objects [12, 13, 14]; d) the specification of registered authors with their personal profiles linked with their publications [8]. We implemented our approach as a whole ecosystem of tools and services at the SocioNet research information system. ...
Our paper presents a semantically enrichable type of research information systems, which differs from the traditional one by allowing users to create semantic linkages between information objects and to enrich by this the initial content. This approach was implemented as a whole ecosystem of tools and services at the SocioNet research information system, which is publicly available for the research community. Making semantic linkages, the SocioNet users create over metadata from its content a semantic layer that visualizes their scientific knowledge or hypothesis about relationships between research outputs. Such facilities, in particular, open new opportunities for authors of research outputs. Authors can essentially enrich metadata of their research outputs after the papers have been published and have become available at the SocioNet content. Authors can provide comments and notes for updating publication abstracts, data about motivations for citing the papers in the reference lists, research association with newer relevant publications, data about their personal roles and contributions into the collective research outputs, etc.
... There is an approach when users identify themselves as authors of some publications by linking their personal profiles with appropriate research output. An approach pioneered by the RePEc Author Service, see [8]. ...
A CRIS system with implemented semantic linkage technique opens new opportunities for authors of research outputs. Using facilities of such a CRIS authors can essentially enrich metadata of their research outputs after the papers have been published and have become available at the CRIS. The proposed approach allows for authors providing some data for enrichment purposes. These data include their personal roles and contributions into the collective research, comments and notes for updating publication abstracts, data about motivations for citing the papers in the reference lists, research association with newer relevant publications, etc. Technically authors make such enrichment as a semantic linking of related publications’ metadata. They don’t overwrite the initial publishers’ metadata. In the paper we present this approach and its pilot implementation at the Socionet CRIS with focus on servicing the big international community of RePEc users. We expect that results of such enrichment will improve a professional recognition of “who did what” and “how research outputs were used”. Also we expect interest from research management and evaluation organizations.
NEP (New Economics Papers) is a current awareness service for the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) digital library. Since its initiation in 1998, over 56 individual lists have been created to loosely represent subfields within economics. Those lists in total made more than 37,000 announcements of about 28,000 working papers that were added to RePEc in the past five years. With several kinds of data available for NEP from May 1998 through June 2003, this study examines the development of the NEP service. The performance of NEP is then measured in terms of timeliness, coverage ratio, and usage. In exploring the various NEP parameters and their relationships, we discuss the potentials and other perspectives of the NEP service. Although it can be further improved, NEP could become an innovative model for current awareness services of digital libraries technically as well as organizationally.
LIBSVM is a library for support vector machines (SVM). Its goal is to help users to easily use SVM as a tool. In this document, we present all its imple-mentation details. For the use of LIBSVM, the README file included in the package and the LIBSVM FAQ provide the information.
This paper describes an autonomous citation index named CitEc that has been developed by the authors. The system has been tested using a particular type of grey literature: working papers available in the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) digital library. Both its architecture and performance are analysed in order to determine if the system has the quality required to be used for information retrieval and for the extraction of bibliometric indicators.
In this paper, we discuss the provision of bibliographic data as an extension of the open source concept. Our particular concern is the sustainability of such endeavors. We describe the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) project, probably the largest "open source" bibliographic database. It demonstrates that open-source bibliographic data collection is sustainable.
Easy instructions on how to set up a fully functional RePEc archive
Cataloging scientific papers creates a new educational resource. Collecting that data is a costly process to achieve and manage. In particular the level of granularity that is required is finer than say for a collection of web sites. One possible approach towards cataloging these resources is to get a community of providers involved in cataloging the materials that they provide. This paper introduces RePEc of http://netec.wustl.edu/RePEc, as an example for such an approach. RePEc is mainly a catalog of research papers in Economics. It is based on set of over 80 archives which all work independently but yet are interoperable. They together provide data about almost 60,000 preprints and over 10,000 published articles.
this article contains four main sections and a conclusion. The first section describes the current state of NetEc (current as of late February 1997). It draws heavily from a text I submitted to the MIDAS newsletter. The second section is concerned with the early history of NetEc. The third section looks in more detail more at a specific NetEc project called WoPEc. It is based on a speech given at the Caisse des Depots et Consignations, Paris on 6 January 1997. The fourth section deals more generally with electronic research publications in Economics, and how WoPEc may impact on academic publishing in the future. All sections may be read independently but nobody should leave out the conclusion. This article was written and submitted to CHEER to celebrate the fourth anniversary of NetEc on 1. February 1997. It is not part of NetEc's policy, the opinions expressed here are mine alone. It is dedicated to the people who have built and supported NetEc over the years. Some of them are mentioned in the following. 2 The NetEc project