Oh, you’re that Cameron Neylon
Why effective identity management is critical
to the development of open research

Oh, you’re that Cameron Neylon
Why effective identity management is critical
to the development of open research
future

Who am I?

friendfeed.com/cameronneylon
twitter.com/cameronneylon
blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen
openwetware.org/wiki/User:Cameron_Neylon
slideshare.net/cameronneylon
viddler.com/cameronneylon

I am all these different
people to different
people at different times

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolomazzoleni/436307747 CC-BY

It matters to me...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdunnette/167010858 CC-BY-SA

...credit for what I’ve done
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gail/309568668 CC-BY

...it matters to him...

...there are things you don’t
want to be associated with...

...what if you’re this guy (or one
of his friends) and want to work
in vaccine research...?

...funders want more
information on outputs

More measurement
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redjar/136165399 CC-BY-SA

Greater diversity of outputs

...serious consequences
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erix/27946743 CC-BY

...and we’re spending £12B
of the taxpayer’s money
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2143212474 CC-BY

...it might be nice
to get this right

...it might be nice
to get this right(ish)

...but that’s all a bit negative
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bensonkua/3165739586 CC-BY-SA

what about a positive view?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29412527@N04/3393371408 CC-BY

...if I want to see
more open data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/2704017177 CC-BY-SA

...a more diverse research community
http://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/22800371 CC-BY

...if I want people to agree
to referee requests...

...then they need to be
recognised and rewarded
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmjas/68005012 CC-BY-SA

Rewards can be big...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/natematias/310642831 CC-BY-SA

...or small...

...but need to be recognised

...trusted
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2941559903 CC-BY

...and unambiguously
linked to one person
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frielp/2661943 CC-BY

In today’s world with its diverse
outputs and metrics any
assessment that cannot be
independently and automatically
replicated is not credible.

For usability,
transparency,
and reliability,
we need a clear
researcher id
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_dietrich/2402860858 CC-BY

So what should it look like?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37868257@N05/3546402630 CC-BY

A token, not an
authentication mechanism

For researchers,
by researchers

The property of the
individual, not controlled
by a commercial group

...or their institution

Any centralised authority
must represent all the
stakeholders not just
entrenched interests.

Future proof, portable,
and native to the open
data web.

...whose data do you trust?
http://is.gd/thVr

We trust people...
...not objects

A semantic social web
of objects (and data,
and process and...)

(Some of) the
people I trust...
...in different ways
and for different
things

No single metric will work for
every person or purpose...

...but with robust identity
tokens we can build metrics
for the purpose at hand

We can build a reward
structure that supports a
more diverse and open
research community.

But more importantly

We can build and manage the
trust networks that will let us
navigate an open web of data.