Abstract: Open Access to Scholarly Metadata can be a
driver to the open access provision of full-text contents. It does
that by relating output to use and use to performance. A basic
condition to establish this relationship is to identify the object
of evaluation, i.e. the authors and their institutions. While the
value of identifiers are beyond question, it is a serious issue of
how to maintain an identification at a cost small enough so that
its results can be made openly available. In this talk I will
present two successful early efforts to provide such identification,
EDIRC and the
RePEc Author System of the
RePEc digital library that I started
in 1993. I will contrast those with an interdisciplinary efforts
I launched in 2007 and 2008, namely
ARIW
and
AuthorClaim. The
emphasis will be on sustainability when the constraint is that
the information is openly available.
