**MOBILISE Workshop** **Authority Management of People Names** ---------- 12-13th March, 2019 Sofia, Bulgaria The workshop will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 12th March and Wednesday 13th March Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – Campus 1, Block 4, Institute of Mechanics, Floor 2, Room 200 and Floor 5, Room 510 ---------- **Introduction** The drive to digitise the Natural History Collections of the world has the potential to link massive amounts of biodiversity and cultural data across time and place. However, the level to which this will enable the cross-discipline research and analysis that we aspire to is dependent on being able to make the connections effectively between the data. The long-standing issues of linking biodiversity data through people such as the collector, determiner, author have still not been fully resolved, although innovative approaches are being proposed and tested. There are options to manage authorities including the use of existing persistent identifiers for these entities and their utility and suitability need to be considered. Importantly, any system will need to enable links to contemporary and historic resources from all sciences and cultural disciplines. This workshop will bring together key contributors from across the relevant range of disciplines to agree a strategy for adoption and implementation for the authority management of people names in Natural History Collections and cross-discipline research and exposure. Information on reclaiming expenses by participants can be found [here][1] and [here][2] and guidance for making the claim can be found [here][3]. There is a separate [wiki][4] for the listing and discussion of identifier systems and we have created a [Googledoc][5] for more active and broader discussion. ---------- **Leads:** 1. Elspeth Haston (RBGE) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848 2. Arnald Marcer (CREAF) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6532-7712 3. Quentin Groom (Meise Botanic Garden) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376 ---------- **Participants:** 1. David Shorthouse (CMN) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230 2. Nicole Kearney (BHL) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2883-0906 3. Simon Chagnoux (MNHN) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4210-484X 4. Vincent Boulet (BnF) 5. Chloé Besombes (MNHN) 6. Nicky Nicolson (RBGKew) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-4884 7. Arnald Marcer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6532-7712 8. Josh Brown (ORCID) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8689-4935 9. Dominik Röpert (BGBM) 10. Rod Page (UoG) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7101-9767 11. Sarah Phillips (RBGKew) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9155-8573 12. Greg Riccardi (iDiGBio) 13. Pavel Stoev (Pensoft) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5702-5677 14. Teodor Georgiev (Pensoft) http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8558-6845 15. Heimo Rainer (NHMW) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5963-349X ---------- **Proposed Agenda:** **Tuesday 12 March** **13:30 - 15:00** Plenary session for all workshops to introduce MOBLISE, DiSSCo and scope of workshops (Floor 5, Room 510) **15:00 - 15:30** Coffee break **15:30 - 17:00** Session 1 (Floor 2, Room 200) Participant introductions (1-2 mins each): Name, organisation, interest in people identifiers Short (10 min) presentations on use cases (collections) - E Haston (RBGE) - Q Groom (BGM) - S Chagnoux (MNHN) - D Röpert (BGBM) - S Phillips (RBGK) Discussion **Wednesday 13 March** **08:15 - 08:30** Welcome coffee **08:30 - 10:30** Session 2 Short (10 min) presentations on use cases (literature) - N Kearney (BHL) - V Boulet (BnF) - C Besombes (MNHN) Discussion **10:30 - 11:00** Coffee break **11:00 - 12:30** Session 3 Short (15 min) presentations on use cases (developers/data scientists) - N Nicholson - D Shorthouse - R Page - J Brown - G Riccardi Short (10 min) presentations on existing systems not already covered or in various stages of planning - Q Groom (Wikidata) - D Shorthouse (RDA/TDWG/GBIF) - V Boulet (VIAF/ISNI) Discussion **12:30 - 13:30** Lunch **13:30 - 15:00** Session 4 Wrap-up Discussions - We could consider splitting the group into about 4 subgroups for some of the discussion with a mix of people in each group and then coming back together again **15:00 - 15:30** Coffee break **15:30 - 17:00** Plenary session and reporting back from all workshops [1]: https://osf.io/gja4x/ [2]: https://osf.io/6d4xm/ [3]: https://osf.io/m64uz/ [4]: https://osf.io/qwegk/wiki/Identifier%20Systems/ [5]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iT920q7hRVvctxdhxyhHIbM_q1L5_lTbuasCQJmkQQU/edit?usp=sharing