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ORCID and JISC MRD projects
identifying knowledge contributors
Gudmundur ‘Mummi’ Thorisson
<gt50@le.ac.uk>
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester
ORCID - http://www.orcid.org
GEN2PHEN - http://www.gen2phen.org
-- Outline --
• Self-intro - who am I and how did I get here?
• ORCID - tackling the author/contributor identification challenge
• Opportunities for JISC MRD (and related) projects
This work can be freely copied, redistributed and
adapted, as long as proper attribution is given
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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
“[...] 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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Challenges in attributing content creators
-the ‘author name problem’-
How about these?
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Challenges in attributing content creators
-the ‘author name problem’-
How about these? Or these?
J. Smith
Are these authors all the same person? J. Smith
G. Thorisson, University of Leicester J. Smith
G. A. Thorisson, University of Leicester J. Smith
G. A. Thorisson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory J. Smith
[etc.]
∼2/3 of the ∼6 million authors in MEDLINE share a last name and first
initial with at least one other author, and an ambiguous name refers to
∼8 persons on average.
Torvik and Smalheiser. Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE. ACM Transactions on Knowledge
Discovery from Data (2009) vol. 3 (3)
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Need to IDENTIFY people as they
contribute to
&
access
Internet resources
• The basic identity problem the
Internet poses is establishing one
party’s identity to another party’s
satisfaction through
communication across the network.
Weitzner. In Search of Manageable Identity Systems. IEEE Internet
Computing (2006) vol. 10 (6) pp. 84-86
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Need to IDENTIFY people as they
contribute to
&
access
Internet resources
• The basic identity problem the
Internet poses is establishing one
party’s identity to another party’s
satisfaction through
communication across the network.
Weitzner. In Search of Manageable Identity Systems. IEEE Internet
Computing (2006) vol. 10 (6) pp. 84-86
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ORCID - tackling the contributor
identification problem
?
ORCID
ORCID ID: B-1242-2010 F67572010
G. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester
G. A. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester
G. A. Thorisson, Cold Spring Harbor Lab.
ORCID ID: G-1442-2009
J. Smith, Univ. North Pole
ORCID ID: D-2400-2010
J. Smith, Luthor Corporation
Global registry of disambiguated IDs for contributors:
i) researchers to manage & use their ORCID ID
ii) linking content creators with their work (attribution links)
iii) interact with other systems (publishers, digital libraries, universities etc)
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Key use case: submitting manuscript to journal
Attribution deposited into ORCID:
• A-883-2010 <created> 10.4259/psycho-review.gbilder2010.Foobar
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ORCID Principles - http://orcid.org/principles
1. ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly
communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors.
2. ORCID will transcend discipline, geographic, national and institutional, boundaries.
3. Participation in ORCID is open to any organization that has an interest in scholarly communications.
4. Access to ORCID services will be based on transparent and non-discriminatory terms posted on the ORCID
website.
5. Researchers will be able to create, edit, and maintain an ORCID ID and profile free of charge.
6. Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their own ORCID profile data.
7. All profile data contributed to ORCID by researchers or claimed by them will be available in standard
formats for free download (subject to the researchers' own privacy settings) that is updated once a
year and released under the CC0 waiver.
8. All software developed by ORCID will be publicly released under an Open Source Software license
approved by the Open Source Initiative. For the software it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source.
9. ORCID identifiers and profile data (subject to privacy settings) will be made available via a combination of
no charge and for a fee APIs and services. Any fees will be set to ensure the sustainability of ORCID as a
not-for-profit, charitable organization focused on the long-term persistence of the ORCID system.
10. ORCID will be governed by representatives from a broad cross-section of stakeholders, the
majority of whom are not-for-profit, and will strive for maximal transparency by publicly posting
summaries of all board meetings and annual financial reports.
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GET INVOLVED!
• Organizations register as participants
• Attend upcoming ORCID Participant meetings
– May 17 @Harvard, USA - focus on data publication and citation (see http:/orcid.org)
• NB follows Data Citation Principles workshop May 16, also @Harvard
– September @CERN, Switzerland
• Participate in community discussion
– Community forum - http://groups.google.com/group/orcid-researchers/
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ORCID collaborative development
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ORCID collaborative development
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Attributing other types of ‘published work’
G. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester
gthorisson@gmail.com
ORCID ID: A-883-2010
• Thorisson, G. (A-883-2010), Bilder, G.W. (C-035-2009) and Fenner, M. (A-101-2010).
Icelandic 9th century viking bowl. Psychoceramics Archive. Sep 2 2010.
doi:10.4259/psycho.5gtpq-thorisson
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Attributing other types of ‘published work’
G. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester
gthorisson@gmail.com
ORCID ID: A-883-2010
• Thorisson, G. (A-883-2010), Bilder, G.W. (C-035-2009) and Fenner, M. (A-101-2010).
Icelandic 9th century viking bowl. Psychoceramics Archive. Sep 2 2010.
doi:10.4259/psycho.5gtpq-thorisson
• A-883-2010 <created> 10.4259/psycho-image5gtpq-thorisson
• C-035-2009 <created> 10.4259/psycho-image5gtpq-thorisson
• A-101-2010 <created> 10.4259/psycho-image5gtpq-thorisson
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Attributing other types of ‘published work’
• Datasets in Dryad
• Knowledge Blog contributions
• SageCite workflows in myExperiment
• XYZ project
G. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester – [insert favorite JISC MRD project!]
gthorisson@gmail.com
ORCID ID: A-883-2010 • Managing/maintaining digital bio-
resources
• Value-add curation activities
• [...etc]
• A-883-2010 <created> [globally-unique identifier for the work]
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Attributing other types of ‘published work’
• Datasets in Dryad
• Knowledge Blog contributions
• SageCite workflows in myExperiment
• XYZ project
G. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester – [insert favorite JISC MRD project!]
gthorisson@gmail.com
ORCID ID: A-883-2010 • Managing/maintaining digital bio-
resources
• Value-add curation activities
• [...etc]
• A-883-2010 <created> [globally-unique identifier for the work]
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• Who contributed to dataset 10.4259/psycho.5gtpq-thorisson?
• All data publications by A-883-2010 ?
G. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester
• Which papers have cited the works of A-883-2010 ? gthorisson@gmail.com
ORCID ID: A-883-2010
• Total no. citations to datasets by A-883-2010 in the last 2 years?
• Total no. downloads of datasets by A-883-2010?
• [...]
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Current ORCID status & timeline
• Alpha prototype
– Running on a live website for limited testing
• partial functionality - based on ResearcherID software
– Development plan forthcoming in mid-April
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Current ORCID status & timeline
• Alpha prototype
– Running on a live website for limited testing
• partial functionality - based on ResearcherID software
– Development plan forthcoming in mid-April
• Rough timeframe for beta system: live late 2011 / early 2012
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ORCID & JISC MRD projects
what can we do together?
• Seeking early adopters / collaborators
• Looking to collaborate with groups & projects
– gather use cases => requirements for ORCID core system
– joint fund-seeking to do pilot implementations
• ORCID wants to do Linked Data
– Aligning with SemWeb work being done in VIVO
– Ontologies: characterize nature of citations (CiTO) and contributions (PRO)?
• Unconference session in afternoon, non?
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Coming autumn 2011, to a venue near you!
Int’l workshop on researcher identity
• Co-organized by CSC (Finland IT Centre for Science)
• Provisional title: “Identity in research infrastructure and
scientific communication" - IRISC
• Location: Helsinki
• Dates: September 12-13
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Acknowledgements
GEN2PHEN Consortium This work has received funding from
the European Community's Seventh
http://www.gen2phen.org/about-gen2phen/partners
Framework Programme
(FP7/2007-2013)
under grant agreement number
200754 - the GEN2PHEN project.
Anthony J. Brookes Bioinformatics Group
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