Author names standardization in institutional information sources: a proposal for an automatic method of checking for errors

Authors

  • Rogerio Mugnaini Escola de Artes Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Luciano Antonio Digiampietri Escola de Artes Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Laucivaldo Cardoso de Oliveira Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas, Universidade de São Paulo [SIBi/USP]
  • Sueli Mara Soares Pinto Ferreira Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas, Universidade de São Paulo [SIBi/USP]

Keywords:

Scientific production. Authority database. Standardization. Automatic processes. Indexing.

Abstract

The recovery of scientific literature by authoring is a challenge for many maintainers of databases, due to the ambiguity caused by problems originated from lack of control at the time of indexing. This paper presents an automatic approach of checking for errors in authorship metadata of University of São Paulo scientific production database (Dedalus) comparing these data with data recovered from the human resources database. Using approximate string matching algorithms, these data from human resources is compared with the scientific production data of four institutes from USP (covering the period 2006-2010). Based on this pilot study it was possible to establish interoperability mechanisms between Dedalus database and the USP human resources database. As an immediate result, it was possible to map the percentage of errors and to create mechanisms of interference, establish a timeline to expand the study to other institutes from USP, and standardization procedures.

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Author Biographies

Rogerio Mugnaini, Escola de Artes Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutor em Ciência da Informação. Professor do Curso de Gestão de Políticas Públicas e do Programa de Ciência da Informação, Universidade de São Paulo

Luciano Antonio Digiampietri, Escola de Artes Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutor em Ciência da Computação pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp. Professor do Programa de Pós-graduação em Sistemas de Informação da Universidade de São Paulo – USP.

Laucivaldo Cardoso de Oliveira, Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas, Universidade de São Paulo [SIBi/USP]

Bibliotecário  pela Universidade de São Paulo (2005)

Sueli Mara Soares Pinto Ferreira, Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas, Universidade de São Paulo [SIBi/USP]

Professora Titular junto a Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Educação, Informação e Comunicação desde julho de 2012. Livre-Docente em Geração e Uso da Informação pela Eca/USP em 2006. Doutora em Ciências da Comunicação pela USP (1995).

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Published

2013-01-10

How to Cite

MUGNAINI, R.; DIGIAMPIETRI, L. A.; OLIVEIRA, L. C. de; FERREIRA, S. M. S. P. Author names standardization in institutional information sources: a proposal for an automatic method of checking for errors. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 18, n. 3, p. 263–279, 2013. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/33265. Acesso em: 8 may. 2025.

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Vol. 18 No. 3 (2012)

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Copyright (c) 2013 Rogerio Mugnaini, Luciano Antonio Digiampietri, Laucivaldo Cardoso de Oliveira, Sueli Mara Soares Pinto Ferreira

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