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Digital Footprints: Unraveling Identity in the Online World

Explore the concept of digital footprints and the complexities of online identity through various alter-egos associated with Anne Welsh. Delve into the intricacies of personas in the digital age and how they shape perceptions. Discover the challenges of name authority and the impact on information retrieval and classification. Join the journey of self-discovery in the vast digital landscape.

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Digital Footprints: Unraveling Identity in the Online World

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  1. What’s in a name? ANNE WELSH LECTURER IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

  2. Vanitas Vanitatem Mary Madden. Digital footprints: identity, search, social networking. Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2008. http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2008/Digital-Footprints.aspx

  3. Who Am I?

  4. Who Am I?

  5. Who Am I?

  6. Favourite Alter-egos[I am not an American hairdresser] http://www.annewelshsalon.com/

  7. Favourite Alter-egos[I am not a pediatric MD] http://www.ucomparehealthcare.com/drs/washington/pediatrics/Welsh_Anne.html

  8. Favourite Alter-egos[I am not an ASBO caseworker] http://www.lostamigos.net/logon/userDetails.asp?name=Anne+Welsh&user_id=94096

  9. Favourite Alter-egos[I was not born in 1548] http://records.ancestry.com/Anne%20Welsh_records.ashx?pid=10234180

  10. Who Am I? [Not quite as pretty as this girl] [Nor as pirate as this one]

  11. “My” composite persona Personas: an art installation, http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html

  12. This is me

  13. A rough guide to those who have found me http://twittersheep.com/

  14. “Raindrops on roses …”(a few of my most find-worthy things)

  15. Split personality?(E-LIS browse search by author) It’s as if this article were never written

  16. But enough about me … John H. Bowman, author of the cataloguing textbook par excellence.

  17. Clicking on “John H. Bowman” What’s happened here? John H. Bowman, taxation expert???

  18. Clicking on “Bowman, J.H.” in a standard library OPAC

  19. Google Scholar Ophthalmologist Taxation and property expert Chemist? Inventor? CATALOGUER Inventor

  20. Organisational names

  21. “Name Authority” • Not a term users would use • “I can’t find the right Joe Bloggs.” • “I can’t find everything by Jane Smith : she’s been married and divorced twice, I think.” • “I want a bibliography of all my publications.” • “Why do I have to use different search terms on book and article databases?”

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