Persistent Identifiers: Where we are now and the Role of Networking Profile Systems in Shaping Their Future

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PID Infrastructure

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Laure Haak http://0000-0001-5109-3700 @HaakYak

19 August 2016 orcid.org 3

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We need to use digital names: persistent identifiers (PIDs) that uniquely specify the person,

organization, or object to which a name refers

Using the WWW?

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PIDs are the plumbing – you all are the plumbers!

19 August 2016 orcid.org 6

Be a good citizen

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DISPLAY • In metadata • On sites • In publications

CONNECT • Affiliations (employers) • Works (publishers) • Awards (funders)

Let’s do this!

NIH Video

Publisher requirement page TAMU LibGuide

Oxford LibGuide Vireo ETD poster

DSpace -Fedora- VIVO Webinar

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Open identifiers deserve their own festival

If you’re doing something interesting with persistent identifiers, or you want to, come to PIDapalooza and share your ideas with a crowd of like-minded innovators. Submit a (super lightweight) proposal today for a 30-min PIDapalooza session.

Jennifer Lin, PhD@jenniferlin15

orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-2328

VIVO Annual Meeting, 19 Aug 2016

PIDs & Crossref metadata exchange

Metadata enable connections

DOI DOI

DOIDOI

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Power to the PIDs

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PIDs neededrequired

Literature

Article

Associated research entities

• co-authors• collaborators

• reviewers• editors

• funders• affiliations

Article

• datasets• software

• protocols• materials

• preprints• conf papers

• peer reviews• translations…

Literature Associated research outputs

Article

• shares• mentions

• discussions• citations

• recommendations• reviews…

Literature Activities surrounding it

Crossref scholarly metadata

• Contributors (authors, editors, reviewers)• Funding information (funding body, grant number)• Clinical trial & study information (clinical trials registry number, registered report,

replication study)• Publication history (versions, updates, revisions, corrections, retractions, dates

received/accepted/published)• Peer review (status, type, reviews)• Access indicators (publication license for text & data mining, machine mining URLs)• Resources & associated research artifacts (preprints, figures & tables, datasets,

software, protocols, research resource IDs)• Activity surrounding the publication (peer reviews, comments & discussions,

bookmarks, social shares, recommendations

Crossref REST APIhttp://api.crossref.orgCrossref Event Query APIsoon!

Python & Ruby & r libraries from rOpenSci

• Filters (see below)• Deep paging (see below)• Pagination• Verbose curl output

Populating VIVO

Serving the VIVO community

With PIDs, benefits of Crossref metadata for VIVO:• Easy researcher profile set up & maintenance• Up to date profiles without researcher labor• Reliable & trusted data, clear & transparent provenance

Crossref metadata powers:• Funders• Institutions• Archives & repositories• Research councils • Data centres• Professional networks • Patent offices• Indexing services

• Publishing vendors• Peer review systems• Reference manager systems• Lab & diagnostics suppliers• Info mgmt systems• Educational tools• Data analytics systems• Literature discovery services

• PID providers, registration agencies

Thank you

Noun Project contributors: BlueTip Design, Jose Moya, Gira Park, Jérôme Poslednik, Adame Dahmani, Simple Icons, Mani Amini, Viktor Vorobyev, useiconic.com, Ashwin Dinesh

Jennifer Lin, PhDjlin@crossref.org

@jenniferlin15orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-2328

What is it?

GRID is a database comprised of a worldwide collection of institutes associated with academic research. The institutes contained are distinguished by a unique persistent identifier, GRID ID.

Why did we build it?

Internal need of our portfolio companies.

We think it can solve your problems too

Capture data accurately

Ensure robust reporting

Disambiguate your data

Key Features

It is FREE

Approximately 63,000 records

Manually curated data

Records contain various metadata fields

Available in various formats including linked open data

What happens when you release identifiers?

What happens when you release identifiers?

What next?

Persistent Identifiers and VIVO Mike Conlon VIVO Project Director Duraspace

Why do we need persistent identifiers?

Answer 1: We need persistent identifiers to identify entities in computer systems

UFID: 8480-8900

UFID: 8480-8900

ORCiD: 0000-0002-1304-8447

SSN: xxx-xx-xxxx

eRACommons: mconlon

ISI ResearcherID: J-9190-

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SCOPUS ID: 35857296600

VIAF*: 26189897

Why do we need persistent identifiers?

Answer 2: We need persistent identifiers because text labels for things are not specific (or consistent)

Johnson 125 Most common surname at UF

J Johnson 45

J A Johnson 6

Julie Johnson 3

Julie A Johnson 1 Dean of the UF College of Pharmacy

UFID: 8480-8900

How does this happen?

The US Federal Government recognizes four levels of identity assurance, Level 1 (weakest) to level 4 (strongest)

Assurance level

Definition Examples

1 Self asserted. “I signed up.” “Someone gave me this ID.”

ORCiD, VIAF, eRACommons, SCOPUS, Researcher ID, most Internet services

2 Identity proofing. Photo. Appear in person.

UFID, Passport, Driver’s License

3 PKI. Tracking. DoD. Some hospitals.

4 “DNA on file” NSA

Some issues with identifiers ● Identifier Assurance -- how sure are we that the identity

corresponds to a particular entity? (person, work, org) ● Identifier Uniqueness -- is the identifier value unique for the

entity? If not, how can multiple values be resolved? ● Identifier Persistence -- will the identifier be around in 1 year, 5

years, 50 years? ● Entity change -- how and when does the identifier change if the

entity changes? ● Identifier Authority -- what authority (legal, social) does the issuer

of the identifier have for managing the relationship with the entity?

● Identifier Exit Strategy -- if we start with an identifier, what effort is involved in transitioning to another?

Some identifiers that work Each is freely available and has an open API

Issues

Organizations GRID http://grid.ac Entity change. Authority.

People ORCiD http://orcid.org Uniqueness. Assurance.

Works DOI http://doi.org Uniqueness.

Thank You Identifiers for this presentation below University of Florida grid.15276.37 Mike Conlon 0000-0002-1304-8447 This Presentation 10.6084/m9.figshare.3565989