Distinguish yourself on the Internet: signature disambiguation

Abstract

With the Internet, the problem of correctly and unambiguously identifying the author of a document has been further aggravated by the amount of information that is housed and the lack of a controlled language that avoids homonyms and noise in the retrieval of said information. At present, author identification systems by numerical or alphanumeric coding coexist; personal-professional profile systems; hybrid or combined resources; and, the authority catalogs, the classic identification and standardization tool in library science. In addition to a descriptive analysis of identification systems, some pointers are provided for novice and not-so-novice writers on avoiding ambiguities. Data as simple as inserting a second surname, providing the year and place of birth, profession, mention of other jobs, if any, or the link to an identification system such as those mentioned above, are possibilities that, added to Materials to be edited, provide that distinctive point and contribute to creating a personal brand by which to be recognized and recognizable.