[Nhcoll-l] collector & determiner identities

[Derek Sikes]

David,

Arctos has an agents table:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__arctosdb.org_documentation_agent_&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=XXIPaOFYXJVA0wHv20mdR1pnGONFEyGNnbq1nvQRvBE&s=pvEpbWVttRYrapqznMOv-VokHnRIvRJE8Usu3dGH37c&e= 

disambiguation of homonymous agents (William Smith) is an issue sometimes.
Adding notes about them, including a simple field to indicate if they are
alive on a certain date (Alive 2016-02-16) helps to separate them from each
other and can be used even when birth & death dates are unknown.

-Derek

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Shorthouse, David <
davidpshorthouse at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> For the past several months, I have been experimenting with the
> reconciliation of collector and determiner names in digitized specimen
> data, using the Canadensys network of aggregated records as a small
> case study.
>
> As you may well know, the Darwin Core terms recordedBy, identifiedBy,
> and indeed scientificNameAuthorship contain people names. To my
> knowledge, no one has tried to reveal the human effort and the
> implicit social networks using content in these terms, perhaps because
> the expected content and format of these terms is so under-specified.
> Maiden and married names, nicknames, variously abbreviated given
> names, etc. are but a few examples that make ad-hoc reconciliation
> heuristics & algorithms very difficult to do well. You can explorer my
> first, albeit naive experiments at
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__collector.shorthouse.net&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=l4-dQ15l7SFEeJeMGIcnWDPyDO7p7IhxNa2gtk34qho&s=mZIjOrs0Vcy44oRHHM8RA14ALH6lG441BSzX1tdtxkI&e=
> .
> There's potential here, but the next logical step is to lift this up
> to something like a Darwin Core extension such that data managers at
> the source have a mechanism to unambiguously link & share each of the
> one-to-many, specimen-to-name pairs to human identity.
>
> I am writing to inquire if anyone knows of any best practices guides
> on how museum staff *ought* to record the names of collectors,
> determiners, and other agents. Do any of you have an *agents* table in
> your database? Have you attempted to link people names in your
> specimen databases to their unambiguous identities and, by extension
> to their scientific outputs like datasets & papers published? Does
> anyone yet record ORCIDs,
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__orcid.org_&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=l4-dQ15l7SFEeJeMGIcnWDPyDO7p7IhxNa2gtk34qho&s=xTk1sgn3JolA6nk4mkV9oxQRdpMuKhWdddwtdnuA8tU&e=
> for this purpose? Last,
> does the ordering of determiner or collector names on labels contain
> any semantic meaning as it does for papers? That's something I have
> not yet considered & quite frankly scares me if this is important.
>
> Hope this generates some discussion,
>
> David P. Shorthouse
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