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Following the idea discussed in the previous blog post of what is needed to develop a system for authors’ data exchange we would like to expand on the topic after receiving feedback. In that blog post the system used for comparison is the one used in the airline industry ( GDS ). The comparison is not meant to imply that the system needs to be built on similar standards as in the airline industry. It is referenced simply due to one specific feature -- exchange and verification of data in real time. The current need to solve the identity management/authority control problem leads us to name the system “GDS system for authors information exchange”, but similar problems are known in other areas. This system can easily be extended to solve those problems. Some of the known problems include resolving the issues around corporate bodies/organizations names as well as subject headings from different controlled vocabularies. We discussed just the authors for the time being but we perceive

One day, just recently I sent a tweet   and followed up with few more addressing the problem of sharing data about creators of scholarly works. As a cataloger in heart but also as a person that has worked on system integrations, including library catalogs, institutional repositories, metadata aggregators, personal and organizational identifiers systems, publishers, and vendors, I am more and more convinced that the solution to the present challenge is a common system where all of these stakeholders/agents will be able to share and exchange data about authors. System like the one used by airlines -  GDS . Not specifically that one, but similar to that as it provides exchange of information. Each of the stakeholders systems should be able to interface with the GDS system, just like each airline computer system interfaces with the GDS system. There can be many levels or modules   for different tasks  in this GDS system. I think this is the best example for comparison and provides a clue