I agree - in fact that's basically what I think I suggested.
Systems such as HubMed, PubMed, Google Scholar could generate author URIs and then map between them (generating lists of equivalences based on whatever info they have available - email addresses, statistics based on text analysis, explicit author ids/uris if provided etc)...
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:stefanom_at_mit.edu]
> Sent: 15 July 2005 16:49
> To: general_at_simile.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: examples of linking bibliographic RDF to articles
>
>
> Alf Eaton wrote:
>
> > "The system can't differentiate between two people with the
> same name",
>
> Ok, it might sound wild, but there is a solution for this: assign a
> different URI per paper and draw equivalences between them.
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