This document summarizes a presentation about connecting identifiers like ORCID and DOIs to link researchers and their works. It describes prototypes created by the ODIN project, including a DataCite2ORCID tool that allows users to search DataCite metadata, find their works, and add them to their ORCID profile with a click. The presentation discusses challenges in linking heterogeneous metadata and next steps to capture contributor-work relationships and align with community standards.

1. Interoperability: connecting identifiers
Gudmundur A. Thorisson, PhD
ORCID EU / ODIN Project
and University of Iceland Computing Services
g.thorisson@orcid-eu.org
http://gthorisson.name | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5635-1860
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Funded by The European Union
Seventh Framework Programme

2. Technical development in ODIN
• ODIN ≠ infrastructure creation project! Output
is roadmaps, technical reports, prototypes etc.
• Proof-of-principle implementations
• British Library: use and citation of social sciences
data, long-running British Birth Cohort Studies
• CERN: attribution in high-energy physics - dealing
with large no. of authors on HEP papers & datasets
• Plus ORCID EU “Labs” mini-projects in WP4
Interoperability
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3. Linking contributors and datasets
Embedding ORCiDs in
data centre workflows
Prospective - long
term aim
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4. Linking contributors and datasets
Embedding ORCiDs in
data centre workflows
Prospective - long
term aim
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Ad hoc claiming of already
published datasets
Retrospective - necessary
now and for quite some time

5. Some terminology
• “claiming” = asserting that one has authored or
otherwise contributed to a published work
• “Person X authored this paper or book”
• “Person Y created this dataset”
• “Person X had role W in the generation of this dataset
and contributed Y and Z”
• Focus here on self-claims - claims by
contributors themselves about their works
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6. Doing it: DataCite2ORCID
• Existing resources available to build on
• CrossRef Metadata Search tool http://search.crossref.org
• DataCite search API
• ORCID Member API
• Technical approach
• Create simple standalone, loosely coupled tools
• Reuse search facility for DataCite search API
• Add several functionality and UI tweaks
• Aim: to get work metadata into the user’s
ORCID profile
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7. The claiming workflow
-- LIVE DEMO? -http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org
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8. The claiming workflow
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12. The claiming workflow
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14. So what’s just happened here?
Trusted identifiers in two
systems have been linked
Gudmundur A. Thorisson
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5635-1860
D2.1 Kick off preparation, Communication
plan and Website. Published 2013 via Figshare
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.107019
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15. So what’s just happened here?
Trusted identifiers in two
systems have been linked
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5635-1860
^
|
V
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.107019
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16. This stuff isn’t nuclear physics
• Lots of resources
available
• Easy to build useful
3rd-parth service
• Where there’s will
there’s a way
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17. Challenges, obstacles, next steps
• Metadata quality and consistency
• DataCite vs. CrossRef vs. ORCID
• From links to semantics - capture nature of the
dataset-to-contributor relationship
• ORCID Working Groups are discussing these
and related issues
• Q: how can we best align with and reuse/adapt existing
standards & community ontologies/vocabularies?
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18. Not yet another standard please!
Credit: http://xkcd.com/927/
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19. The open source advantage
• Key building blocks
• Generic - Sinatra webapp framework, OmniAuth
authentication framework, >dozen more
• Domain-specific - CrossRef Metadata Search app,
omniauth-orcid Ruby gem
• Reuse/Remix/Extend to build new things
• ORCID is taking advantage of open source
• https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source
• http://orcid.org/about/community/orcid-technical-community
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20. The ISNI2ORCID tool
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21. Acknowledgements
• Martin (the other half of ORCID
EU Labs, did majority of work!)
• Karl & Geoff @CrossRef for
open-sourcing their stuff
• ODIN partners for testing&feedback
• Numerous other testers in the community
who helped us make the tool better
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22. Resources and more information
• Our stuff is on Github
• https://github.com/ORCID-EU-Labs
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