This document discusses opportunities to improve interoperability between libraries and identifiers like ORCID and DataCite. It notes that with interoperable identifiers, authors can be linked not only to their journal articles but also other scholarly works like blog posts, data, and "nano publications". This increased interconnection and context about authors would allow relevance rankings in academic search to account for social metrics beyond just citations and peer reviews. Achieving this level of interoperability requires identifiers for researchers, scholarly objects, organizations, and potentially other entities that can be enriched and reused across different domains and applications.

1. Opportunities: Improve Interoperability
...from a library viewpoint
Lambert Heller
ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network (ODIN) 2012 Kickoff Meeting
Berlin, 18.10.2012

2. Relevance ranking in academic search, ca. 2012
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3. Adding a social angel to relevance: Altmetrics
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4. Adding a social angel to relevance: Altmetrics
(Maybe) common sense:
• ALM = better than to
have only peer review
and citation counts
How do they compare?
• Peer review + citations =
done by a few experts
on research topic of
article in question.
• Bookmarks, Tweets,
Likes, usage data... =
broad, but diffuse.
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5. In 2017, bookmarks may be (simple) statements
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(from: HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Actions/RhetoricalStructure)

6. In 2017, bookmarks may be (simple) statements
...and not just on journals articles,
but also
• blog postings
• shared research data
• additions to collaborative work
(e.g. wiki article, genome
annotation on Github)
• „nano publications“ (e.g.
scientific claims)
• ...
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(from: HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Actions/RhetoricalStructure)

7. Identified authors = authors we know more about
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8. Identified authors = authors we know more about
Thanks to interoperable
identifiers, we gain
knowledge from different
sources:
• Institutional („research
information systems“),
• Personal („Facebook for
scientists“, cf. VIVO),
• Publishers, repositories (cf.
ORCID)
• Research libraries,
• Citation analysis
• etc.
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9. Identified authors = authors we know more about
Thanks to interoperable
identifiers, we gain
knowledge from different
sources:
• Institutional („research
information systems“), ...therefore can not only be
• Personal („Facebook for linked to their journals articles,
scientists“, cf. VIVO), but also to their
• Publishers, repositories (cf. • blog postings
ORCID) • shared research data
• Research libraries, • additions to collaborative work
• Citation analysis • „nano publications“
• etc. • ...
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10. book-
Identified authors = authorsrs we know more about
marke
Thanks to interoperable
identifiers, we gain
knowledge from different
sources:
• Institutional („research
information systems“), ...therefore can not only be
• Personal („Facebook for linked to their journals articles,
scientists“, cf. VIVO), but also to their
• Publishers, repositories (cf. • blog postings
ORCID) • shared research data
• Research libraries, • additions to collaborative work
• Citation analysis • „nano publications“
• etc. • ...
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11. Relevance ranking in academic search, ca. 2017?
Sort your results
• Relevance A: (Number of) positive
statements from researchers on topic
• Relevance B: (Number of) statements
from researchers on topic in total
• Relevance C: ...
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12. Relevance ranking in academic search, ca. 2017?
Sort your results
• Relevance A: (Number of) positive
statements from researchers on topic
• Relevance B: (Number of) statements
from researchers on topic in total
• Relevance C: ...
Enhance your search to
• Blog postings
• Nano publications
• ...
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13. Relevance ranking in academic search, ca. 2017?
Does anybody need
this?
• Cf. Rise of arXiv,
Sort your results
PLoS ONE... • Relevance A: (Number of) positive
• Priem/Hemminger: statements from researchers on topic
„Decoupling the • Relevance B: (Number of) statements
from researchers on topic in total
scholarly journal“ • Relevance C: ...
Enhance your search to
• Blog postings
• Nano publications
• ...

14. What identifiers do we need to make that happen?
Interoperable Identifiers for
• researchers
• any kind of scholarly objects (+ collaborative, dynamic objects)
• organizational structures of academia (beyond grant numbers)
• in some cases, even for things (e.g. telescopes)
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15. What identifiers do we need to make that happen?
Identifiers that can be used/enriched by
• their „owners“ – e .g. authors with their ORCID
• Institutions – e.g. librarians linking objects to ORCIDs when
their owners can`t/won`t
• others – e.g. citation references (+ bookmarking, tweeting...)
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16. What identifiers do we need to make that happen?
As a result, identifiers shouldn`t be private property (but need to
be in the public domain).
And perhaps most important:
We need a broad awareness of identifiers and relation types
that are already in use, and a culture of reuse across different
application types (publishers, researcher network services,
institutional research information systems, and libraries).
Linked Open Data may be helpful in that way.
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17. Questions + feedback = welcome J
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18. Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit!