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The fifteen members of the RLG Partners Neworking Names Advisory Group have articulated the problem space that the research community needs to address and the necessary components for a “Cooperative Identities Hub” that would have the most impact across different target audiences.  The group developed fourteen use case scenarios around academic libraries and scholars, archivists and archival users, and institutional repositories that provide the context in which different communities would benefit from aggregating information about persons and organizations, corporate and government bodies, and families, and making it available on a network level.

The Networking Names report published in April 2009 summarizes the group’s recommendations on the functions and attributes needed to support the use case scenarios. On July 21 we held a Networking Names Webinar that summarized highlights from the report and requirements derived from fourteen use case scenarios for a "Cooperative Identities Hub", plus:

• Suzanne Pilsk (Smithsonian) illustrating the “problem space” of dispersed information about names within one institution
• Thomas Hickey (OCLC Research) on WorldCat Identities and the Virtual International Authority File as examples of applications that incorporate some of the Hub components.
• Amanda Hill (University of Manchester) on the work of the Names Project in the UK.
• Dennis Meissner (Minnesota Historical Society) on the Encoded Archival Context work
• Grace Agnew (Rutgers) on the NISO Institutional Identifier working group, including mapping its own data attributes to the Identities Hub requirements.

The recording of the Webinar is available here. The PowerPoint used - with speaker notes - is saved under the "Documents" tab.

Continue the conversation! Questions that were submitted in the Webinar chat room have been pasted under the "Discussion" tab. Please feel free to create your own discussion threads or respond to what's already there. (You must be signed in to participate in the discussion.)

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