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Announcement of intent to collaborate and resolve author name ambiguity.
Leading members from the research community today announced their
intent to collaborate to resolve the author name ambiguity problem in scholarly
communication. Together, the group hopes to develop an open, independent identification
system for scholarly authors.
Accurate identification of researchers and their work is one of the pillars for the transition
from science to e-Science, wherein scholarly publications can be mined to spot links and
ideas hidden in the ever-growing volume of scholarly literature. A disambiguated set of
authors will allow new services and benefits to be built for the research community by all
stakeholders in scholarly communication: from commercial actors to non-profit
organizations, from governments to universities.