GM-RKB Person Page
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A GM-RKB Person Page is a GM-RKB page whose primary subject is an individual person.
- AKA: GM-RKB Author Page (an existing redirect; the name emphasizes author-oriented entries).
- Context:
- It can (typically) identify the person in its opening sentence and describe the roles or contributions that make the entry useful to the knowledge base.
- It can (typically) connect an Author to GM-RKB Publication Pages for their publications, while leaving each publication's detailed treatment on its own page.
- It can (typically) provide a context section linking the person to collaborators, areas of work, and Research Projects in which they participated.
- It can (typically) distinguish statements about the person from statements about a concept associated with them: a physicist's biography and a theory they developed have different primary subjects.
- It can (often) record affiliations and roles with dates, so that a past appointment is not presented as a current one.
- It can (often) connect collaborators as persons with their own entries, allowing the reader to follow relationships without treating those people as interchangeable.
- It can (often) include a notes section with a Personal Homepage, Google Scholar Author Page, or DBLP Page that helps the reader find further information about the same individual.
- It can (often) have a GM-RKB References Section containing bibliographic entries, with works by the person distinguished from sources about the person.
- It can include documented alternate names or name forms when they help the reader connect records. A shared name alone is insufficient to establish that two records describe the same person.
- It can use an external researcher identifier, such as an ORCID iD, to help connect a researcher with works and affiliations; possession of an ORCID iD alone is not identity verification.
- It can distinguish an original contribution from later commentary about it, linking each claim to the appropriate publication or other source.
- It can describe a historical person or a public figure whose relevance is not limited to scholarly authorship; an author bibliography is one useful specialization of the page, not a condition for membership.
- It can give a concise account without reproducing an entire external biography or every publication in an external profile.
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- It can range from being a Brief GM-RKB Person Page to being a Detailed GM-RKB Person Page, depending on its GM-RKB Person Page Content Depth: a short identification and selected links can grow into a sourced account of roles, contributions, and relationships.
- It can range from being a Research-Focused GM-RKB Person Page to being a Biography-Focused GM-RKB Person Page, depending on its GM-RKB Person Page Content Focus: research outputs may dominate one entry, while life history and public roles dominate another. These emphases can coexist.
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- Example(s):
- GM-RKB Researcher Pages, such as:
- Andrew McCallum, whose entry connects research interests and software projects with publication references and external author profiles.
- Gabor Melli, whose entry combines research and publications with professional, community, and other personal roles; it illustrates broader coverage than a bibliography alone.
- GM-RKB Historical Person Pages, such as:
- Albert Einstein, whose entry identifies the individual and links to related physics concepts. The person is the subject, even when associated theories receive substantial attention.
- GM-RKB Public Figure Pages, such as:
- Barack Obama, an entry about an individual public figure rather than a general definition of political office.
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- GM-RKB Researcher Pages, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- A GM-RKB Publication Page, such as the page for the 2001 Conditional Random Fields paper: the publication is the primary subject, even though its authors are named and linked.
- A GM-RKB Concept Page defining Person or Author: it describes a class of entities, rather than one individual member.
- An external Google Scholar Author Page or DBLP Page: it can supply relevant links or evidence, but is hosted outside GM-RKB.
- A directory listing several people without selecting an individual as its primary subject: naming people does not make the directory an individual person page.
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- See: GM-RKB Annotation Guideline, Publications Page, GM-RKB Publication Page, Personal Homepage.
References
- GM-RKB corpus examples: Andrew McCallum, Gabor Melli, Albert Einstein (1879-1955), and Barack Obama (1961-). These illustrate page contents and boundaries; they do not prescribe mandatory sections for every person page.
- Google Scholar. Google Scholar Profiles. Describes author profiles and warns that automatically grouped publications can include work by other people with similar names.
- Reitz, Florian (2020). Name disambiguation suffixes in dblp. Explains the need to distinguish different authors with identical names.
- ORCID. Does an ORCID iD assure my identity?. Distinguishes connections to works and professional affiliations from identity verification.