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The Bibliographic Knowledge Network Project is developing software and data formats to encourage decentralized creation and maintenance of open stores of bibliographic information by individuals and virtual organizations. It is hoped to encourage distributed maintainers of author identity services, such as the RePec Author Service, Krichel's AuthorClaim, and the Thomson Reuters ResearcherID, to support stable public author identifiers which can be exchanged in bulk, using OAI-PMH or similar. The purpose is to allow curators of bibliographic data to quickly identify authors in a local data store with authors in other stores the curator may respect or find useful. Exposure of bibliographic data enhanced by such identifications, through suitable web services, should systematically improve the quality of author identification in an open semantic network of bibliographic information.
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