Author identification: national and disciplinary approaches

<!--HTML-->Author identication can be provided by authors themselves, or be intermediaries. Authors can be identified ex-post, within sets of bibliographic data, or ex-ante, when publication data is composed. Leo Waaijers introduces the digital author identifier, as working in the DARE project. It is based on old library technology, yet compliant with the forthcoming ISO standard on party identification ISPI. Thomas Krichel introduces the ACIS project (http://acis.openlib.org) and its first implementation in the RePEc author service (http://authors.repec.org). This is a low-cost approach. It relies on authors themselves to register. A central registration is a pure ex-post operation. However, it can be combined with an archival operation to permit additional ex-ante registered author data. <br><br> <a href="http://cern.ch/oai5/presenters_profiles.html#KRICHEL" target="_blank">View Thomas Krichel's biography</a><br> <a href="http://cern.ch/oai5/presenters_profiles.html#LEO" target="_blank">View Leo Waaijer's biography</a> </p>