Melissa Haendel, Brian Lowe, & Violeta Ilik VIVO 2014 Austin, TX August 8, 2014 The Case for Stable VIVO URIs
Jul 08, 2015
Melissa Haendel, Brian Lowe, & Violeta Ilik
VIVO 2014 Austin, TX
August 8, 2014
The Case for Stable VIVO URIs
INSTITUTION
PUBLISH
CONSULT
EXPERIMENT
FUND
DEPOSIT
The problem
•Each system creates identifiers for each author and co-author •Need to link and disambiguate researchers across institutions •Need to preserve institutional authority over scholarly contributions •VIAF and LCNAF collate scholar’s identifiers from many places •Not all authors have ORCID or other unique identifier
Need to link people
How many scholarly works has Michael Conlon published?
Who has expertise in bioinformatics and evolutionary biology in the southeast?
How can we identify external advisors for an interdisciplinary training program?
Which research topics lack funding in our consortium?
TITLE: “VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery”
…It isn’t him!
We can use VIVO Profiles to relate
people to their works
Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PPC)
Task Group on the creation and Function of
Name Authorities in a Non-MARC
Environment
Relate external named entity identifiers and information to library authority data and bibliographic data
Structure library authority data for use in linked data environment and library systems
GOALS:
OCLC: Registering Researchers in Authority Files
10 types of scholarly systems
Authority hubs Current Research Information System (CRIS) Identifier hubs National research portal Online encyclopedia
Reference management Research and collaboration hub
Researcher profile systems Subject author identifier system
Subject repository
OCLC: Draft Registering Researchers in Authority Files report (dated 2014-03-28)
Examples
Why we need persistent identifiers
across systems
Different systems have different data that can be
utilized across sources
Multiple names/transliteration
Change of names
Pseudonyms - privacy issues!!!
Challenges in linking records
An example resource addressing
similar issues in science
Resolvable identifiers Location independent Free to use
Granularity of identifiers Customizable behaviors RDF support Community driven
Curated resource
Reliable
Unrestricted scope
Identifiers and Profiles in
bibliographic records – new
developments
Plug in ORCiD identifier and any other identifier (ISNI, VIAF) in Name Authority Records in 024 field with delimiter |2 qualifier value of orcid, isni, viaf …
Example on Eric Childress NAR: http://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2005-43559.html
Eric Childress in LC NAF:
But no VIVO URI?
http://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2005-43559.html
VIVO and ORCID Example: Michael Conlon
VIVO URI: http://vivo.ufl.edu/individual/n25562
and
ORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-8447
VIVO URI identifies person but also returns linked data published
by the University of Florida.
ORCID controlled by individual.
We need both.
Distributed Person Data
Former Institution
VIVO URI
Current Institution
VIVO URI
Future Institution
VIVO URI
sameAs link
sameAs link
sameAs link
Distributed Person Data
Each institution publishes authoritative data about
researcher's activities during a given time period.
URIs for VIVOs that commit to maintaining the
historical data should be registered for ongoing
discoverability.
Each VIVO records ORCID iD to aid in sameAs
linking.
Creating stable VIVO URIs
Institution A Institution B
ID:123
http://vivo.institutionA.edu/
individual/n64866
http://vivo.institutionB.edu/
individual/n88764
http://vivo.institutionA.edu/
individual/n45891
Mary Jane
Co-authorship
Joe Shmo Joe Shmo
Goal:
Registering VIVO URIs with OCLC PURL server?
Making vivoweb.org/ontology URIs persistent
Ontology URI already HTTP redirect Locally hosted VIVO profiles (the persistence
of these will depend on the same guidelines as for the ontology, except at a local level)
VIVO hub (vivoweb.org? OCLC? ORCID?)
Creating stable VIVO URIs
Conclusions
To support maximal data integration across
sites and platforms, we need to support:
Persistence of VIVO person URIs
Management of sameAs assertions for
person instances across platforms
Registration of VIVO person URIs in VIAF
Thank you