Author Consolidation across European National Bibliographies and Academic Digital Repositories

Abstract

This paper presents an ongoing work on the consolidation of authors across the national bibliographies of Europe and of academic digital repositories. We are studying this problem in the Driver data sets and using the Virtual Union Authority File as the consolidation data set for persons. These first results have shown an overlap in author names between the two data sets, but 41% of the names had ambiguous matches. We also present results on other existing information that may be exploited to perform disambiguation of these cases. We present future work as well, and discuss the application within The European Library and for external systems.