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Digital Author Identifier
A unique number to all academic authors in the Netherlands as a form of authority control

The Digital Author Identifier (DAI) was a Dutch initiative to create an person identifier for researchers to (1) enhance linkability of scholarly communication and other types of output to a single author and (2) to disambiguate between authors with similar or even the same names.

As a form of authority control, DAI was envisioned to assign a unique national id for every author active within a Dutch university, university of applied sciences, or research institute. The DAI is prepared from the ISO standard "ISNI" (International Standard Name Identifier). The DAI links the PICA database in institutional libraries with the METIS national research information system subsequently made available to international search engines. Specifically, SURFfoundation has, in cooperation with OCLC PICA, created a connection with PICA National Thesaurus Authornames (NTA) that is supplied and maintained by university libraries. Important to this is the connection between the research information system Metis and the repositories.

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Superseded by ORCID

The DAI was part of the national knowledge infrastructure, but the (Dutch) scientific community, has been using other identifiers as well, such as ORCID, ResearcherID,5 and ScopusId.6 In the Netherlands, in 2025, the research community seems to have been converging towards using ORCID as the national identifier based on the fact that universities,78 and the KNAW910 promote the use of ORCID, not DAI.

See also

References

  1. van der Feesten, Maurice. "Surfnet Wiki". DAI. Retrieved 2025-02-22. https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/standards/DAI

  2. "SURFfoundation". Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2009-07-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20090618101300/http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/Pages/default.aspx

  3. OCLC PICA http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/default.htm

  4. Metis Archived 2007-02-22 at the Wayback Machine http://metis.hosting.kun.nl/metis/default.cfm?i=aboutmetis

  5. ResearcherID http://www.researcherid.com/

  6. ScopusID http://info.scopus.com/setup/admin/customizing/

  7. "Orcid | Service Portal | University of Twente". www.utwente.nl. Retrieved 2025-02-22. https://www.utwente.nl/en/service-portal/university-library/research-impact/orcid

  8. "Visibility to-do list - Utrecht University Library - Utrecht University". www.uu.nl. Retrieved 2025-02-22. https://www.uu.nl/en/university-library/advice-support-to/researchers/visibility/visibility-check/visibility-to-do-list

  9. "New in the DANS Data Stations: Log in with your ORCID account!". DANS. Retrieved 2025-02-22. https://dans.knaw.nl/en/news/new-in-the-dans-data-stations-log-in-with-your-orcid-account/

  10. "Persistent identifiers (PIDs) – KNAW Pure info". Retrieved 2025-02-22. https://adminpure.knaw.nl/?page_id=6075