Benjamin Matthias Ruppik worked on author name standardization for the acl-org/acl-anthology repository, focusing on improving data consistency and author attribution. He enhanced the name_variants.yaml file by introducing canonical names, unique IDs, ORCID integration, and name variants, enabling deterministic author representation. Using YAML and data management skills, Benjamin established a more robust data model that supports downstream analytics and search, while laying the foundation for future author disambiguation features. Although no bugs were addressed during this period, his work stabilized data governance and improved the repository’s ability to link and analyze author identities across the anthology’s growing dataset.