sameAs London May 2011: The digital scholar, identity on the Web and ORCID

Beyond Impact workshop, Wellcome Trust, London 9-11 May 2011

http://www.orcid.org G. A. Thorisson, University of Leicester / ORCID

The digital scholar, identityon the Web and ORCID

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Gudmundur A. Thorisson <[email protected]> Tony Brookes bioinformatics group

Departments of GeneticsUniversity of Leicester

-- Outline --• Background + how I got here

• Contributor recognition - attribution for non-conventional research outputs

• How might ORCID fit into the online identity landscape?

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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

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The data sharing problem

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Lack of incentives for sharing

• Effort required to prepare, package and submit datasets to public repositories

• Time better spent writing papers & grants

• All sticks (funders, journals) - no carrots

• Need incentives - treat data as publications and credit creators

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“[...] Many of the issues regarding data availability can be addressed if the principles of “publication” rather than “sharing” are applied. However, online data publication systems also need to develop mechanisms for data citation and indices of data access comparable to those for citation systems in print journals”

Costello, M. Motivating Online Publication of Data. BioScience (2009) vol. 59 (5) pp. 418-427




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Global registry of disambiguated IDs for contributors:i) tools for researchers to manage & use their ORCID identifierii) track author-to-publication attribution linksiii) interact with other systems (e.g. publishers, digital libraries)

ORCID

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ORCID ID: B-1242-2010G. Thorisson, Univ. LeicesterG. A. Thorisson, Univ. LeicesterG. A. Thorisson, Cold Spring Harbor Lab.

ORCID ID: G-1442-2009J. Smith, Univ. North Pole

ORCID ID: D-2400-2010J. Smith, Luthor Corporation

ORCID - tackling the author identity problem




Key use case: submitting manuscript to journal

Attribution link deposited into ORCID:

• A-883-2010 <created> 10.4259/psycho-review.gbilder2010.FoobarBilder, G. Foobar <A-883-2010> study of bar-foo. Psychoceramics Review. Published online May 23 2010. doi:10.4259/psycho-review.gbilder2010.Foobar




• But, there’s lots more ways of contributing to science

• I want be credited for .....

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... my data publications in Dryad and other public repos

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.. (in future) my nanopublications [see Paul Groth plz]

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.. (in future) my nanopublications [see Paul Groth plz]

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... my Taverna analytical workflows and other digital research objects published on myExperiment

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... my Wikipedia contributions

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... my contributions to open-source software projects

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• etc. etc. etc.

• In short, ‘I wanna’ aggregate all those contributions and showcase me as a ‘digital scholar’

Challenge: Identity fragmentation



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How do I link all those different sub-identities together that matter to me professionally?

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Technologically, this is not rocket science

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Technologically, this is not rocket science

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Single sign-on with social IDs

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What’s love ORCID gotta do with it?

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What’s love ORCID gotta do with it?

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http://mummi.myopenid.com






• Some points from ‘Beyond Impact’ discussions

– I’ve got lots of profiles / identifiers - why do I need yet another one?

• side note: majority of scholars are not this ‘online identity-aware’

– Centralization == BAD; dude, can’t this stuff be distributed?

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Geoffrey BilderDirector of Strategic Initiatives




What makes ORCID different?• ORCID is the only researcher identifier that is not limited to

discipline, institution or geographic area

• ORCID is backed by a non-profit organization with over 200 participants behind it

• ORCID is backed by many different stakeholders

• Publishers are an important ORCID stakeholder but are just one part

• ORCID is serious about building an open system

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Self-asserted vs organization-asserted identy assertions




What’s love ORCID gotta do with it?An online identity for the digital scholar,

centred on contributor ID?

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What’s love ORCID gotta do with it?An online identity for the digital scholar,

centred on contributor ID?

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GEN2PHEN Consortiumhttp://www.gen2phen.org/about-gen2phen/partners

Prof Anthony J. Brookes Bioinformatics Group

This work has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)under grant agreement number 200754 - the GEN2PHEN project.

Acknowledgements

Contact me! Gudmundur ‘Mummi’ Thorisson

<[email protected]> |<[email protected]>http://friendfeed.com/mummi

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mummihttp://www.twitter.com/gthorisson


http://www.gen2phen.org/about-gen2phen/partners

http://www.gen2phen.org/about-gen2phen/partners





http://friendfeed.com/mummi

http://friendfeed.com/mummi

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mummi

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mummi

http://www.twitter.com/gthorisson

http://www.twitter.com/gthorisson



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Scope (initial beta system)ORCID will build a central registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars with the following scope:

• ORCID will focus on currently active researchers

• Data will come from individuals and organizations

• ORCID will be a hybrid system of self- and organization-asserted identity

• Data collected will be those needed for disambiguation - extra data for optionally creating full CV-like profiles might be added in the future

• The system will provide basic matching and disambiguation of names

• The ORCID system will, from the start, enable 3rd parties to build value added services using ORCID infrastructure

• ORCID services will be developed based on the needs of the ORCID community

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sameAs London May 2011: The digital scholar, identity on the Web and ORCID

Education

impact workshop

wellcome trust

data citation

data publications

data availability

data sharing problem

orcid identifier

publication attribution