An automatic system for identifying authorities in digital libraries

In this paper we introduce an automatic system to perform authority control in digital libraries based on data mining techniques. This system is able to find the different representations for an author name as well as to distinguish between different authors sharing the same name. Using that information, the system shows the user the results of a search over a digital library properly grouped according to their authorship. To accomplish this task, it only uses information that can be directly obtained from the digital library itself without any kind of external data. The system has been tested using different digital libraries on the web.

► We introduce an automatic system for authority control in digital libraries.
► It allows to search an author independently of how her/his name is written.
► It is able to do so using only information available on any digital library.
► We have used different digital libraries to test the method.