{"id":273,"date":"2009-06-16T20:27:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/06\/16\/on_the_importance_of_being_cameron_neylon\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T20:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:27:01","slug":"on_the_importance_of_being_cameron_neylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/06\/16\/on_the_importance_of_being_cameron_neylon\/","title":{"rendered":"On the importance of being Cameron Neylon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I started a blog and all I got was a new job<\/h3>\n

\nA few weeks ago I arranged to meet Cameron<\/a> at a pub just across the road from my office. At the time I could stand up at my computer, turn my head and see into the lounge. It was that close. Since then the east side of our floor has been refurbished and I sit in a sunlit bay that overlooks a courtyard, with three empty desks around me and chairs that number between one and four, depending on any number of factors.<\/p>\n

\nJust to make Matt jealous, we do have air-conditioning now. And while I find it very comfortable (although these afternoons I am forced to lower the blind because I start to cook) the comment from most of the women in the lab<\/del> office has been along the lines of ‘my, but isn’t it cold<\/em>?’ Except less politely-worded.<\/p>\n

\nAll that aside, I was talking with Cameron about something that is very interesting to publishers and information service providers (in case you missed it, I now work<\/a> for one<\/a>). Cameron presented these slides at the Eduserv Symposium<\/a> (and you can watch<\/a> the recordings of his and the other talks).<\/p>\n

Oh you're that Cameron Neylon<\/a><\/p>\n
View more Microsoft Word documents<\/a> from Cameron Neylon<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nEssentially, what we have in the scientific literature\u2014and not just the literature but also when we want to give credit to those who blog, or who deposit data, or who curate databases, or do anything<\/em> that might be measurable and therefore applicable to assessment\u2014is a huge Zhang problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nHow do we distinguish authors (or to be more precise, contributors<\/em>) with the same name?<\/p>\n

\nHow do we make sure that contributors get credited appropriately for their work, in a day and age where automated metrics are becoming more important. How do you make sure that you get the credit in the next Research Excrement Framework and not the other person with the same name? How, in fact, if you’re this guy<\/a> do you make sure you’re not the one getting sued for libel; or, using Cameron’s example, if you’re Andrew Wakefield and want to work in immunology, what are you going to do?<\/p>\n

\nI’ve been fascinated by this problem for a while, ever since I started getting stopped in the street and being told that Withnail and I<\/em> is the best film ever. But as anyone even vaguely familiar with F1000<\/a> might not be surprised to learn, I have more than a passing professional interest in it, too.<\/p>\n

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\nSo it’s gratifying to see the issue coming to the front of the minds of some of the brightest people in the industry. We’re pretty much resigned to having to curate our data manually for a little while, but after hearing rumours<\/a> and having wishful thoughts, I finally caught up with Geoffrey Bilder<\/a> at a meeting of the ALPSP<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

\nThe people who brought you the DOI are prototyping a Contributor ID. And I am all of a sudden quite excited about this. You should be too, especially if your name is Zhang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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