Presented at the 2015 Joint Entomological Society of Canada and Québec meetings in Montréal in a museums symposium session organized by Cory Sheffield.

1. Collector networks, expert
directories, and #altmetrics:
Museum data potential in the
aggregate
David P. Shorthouse
Université de Montréal / Canadensys
@dpsSpiders @canadensys

2. How Do We Find Experts?
Professor Database

3. Maintaining an Address Book is Painful
• People are fickle
– Change institutions
– Change careers
– Email, mail, fax addresses/#’s, URLs change
• Membership is subjective
– Scopes, criteria shift

4. How Do We Recognize Expertise?

5. Natural History Museum: Coleoptera Section

7. DarwinCore Terms Containing People
recordedBy: A list of names of people, groups, or
organizations responsible for recording the original
Occurrence.
identifiedBy: A list of names of people, groups, or
organizations who assigned the Taxon to the
subject.
scientificNameAuthorship: The authorship
information for the scientificName formatted
according to the conventions of the applicable
nomenclaturalCode.

8. How Do You Make a List?

9. split_by = %r{
[–|&/;]|
b(?:s+-s+)b|
b(?i:with|and|et)b|
b(?i:annotated(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:conf.?(s+by)?s+|confirmed(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:checked(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:det.?(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:dupl?.?(s+by)?s+|duplicate(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:ex.?(s+by)?s+|examined(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:in?dentified(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:ins+part(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:redet.?(s+by?)?s+)b|
b(?i:reidentified(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:stet!?)b|
b(?i:then(s+by)?s+)b|
b(?i:verf?.?(s+by)?s+|verified?(s+by)?s+)b
}x

10. How Do You Write Your
Name?

11. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

12. Patronymic
Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Icelandic: givenName-father’sGivenName-patronymic(-sdóttir)
2+ family names
María-Jose Carreño Quiñones
José Eduardo Santos Tavares Melo Silva
Initials
A.B.T. Smith, Andrew B.T. Smith, A. Smith
Different Order
Mao Ze Dong
Chinese: familyName-generationalName-givenName
Mixing it Up
Kogaddu Birappa Timappa Nair
Indian: villageName-fathersName-surname-casteName

13. Patronymic
Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Icelandic: givenName-father’sGivenName-patronymic(-sdóttir)
2+ family names
María-Jose Carreño Quiñones
José Eduardo Santos Tavares Melo Silva
Initials
A.B.T. Smith, Andrew B.T. Smith, A. Smith
Different Order
Mao Ze Dong
Chinese: familyName-generationalName-givenName
Mixing it Up
Kogaddu Birappa Timappa Nair
Indian: villageName-fathersName-surname-casteName

15. http://InformationR.net/ir/9-4/paper192.html

16. A. Smith (in part)
Alison
Allan
A.L.
A.C.A.D.
Alex
Alan
A.H.
A.
A.J.
Andre
w
Andrew B.T.
Aj E.
Albert C.
A.T.B. A.R. A.B.T
Albert
A.J.G.
A.J.E.
Aje Afr
A.P. A.S.

17. Identity Management
http://orcid.org

18. http://pub.orcid.org/v1.2/0000-0002-7260-0350/orcid-profile
Full name
Current & past institutional affiliation(s)
Contact information
List of publications with DOIs
Co-authors with their ORCIDs
Date last updated

20. http://collector.shorthouse.net

24. 100,237 specimens
31,018 determinations

25. Could this Focus on
People Help Revitalize
Digitization?

26. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1168

27. iDigBio / GBIF Working Group
Extension to Darwin Core to include ORCID
identifiers: recordedByID & identifiedByID
Explore how to design an « S-index »
Modelled after the h-index

28. Conclusions
Get your unique ORCID identifier & enhance it
with your professional information
Use it on manuscripts and grant applications
Ask specimen depositors to provide digital data
AND ORCID identifiers
Include ORCID identifiers when publishing
specimen data to Canadensys / GBIF