Geoffrey Bilder presents on the Organisational Identifier (OI) Project at the OpenCon satellite event in Oxford, Nov 2016

3. the case of
the missing
leg
#OpenCon, Oxford
Geoffrey Bilder
Director of Strategic Initiatives
@gbilder

4. organisation
identifiers
#OpenCon, Oxford
Geoffrey Bilder
Director of Strategic Initiatives
@gbilder

5. The power of PIDs

7. Presenter Name
Presenter Title
@twittername

8. Presenter Name
Presenter Title
@twittername

10. Flashback 2011

11. Brown University
Psychoceramics
Professor

14. • Not-for-profit global initiative
• 30 members worldwide
> 814 data centers
> 7.4 million DOIs
> 6,600,000++ resolutions/month
DataCite Snapshot

16. So now what?

17. We still have a
problem

18. The problem:

19. The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID

20. The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID
Organisation identifiers:

21. ISNI?
Ringgold?
FundRef?
GRID?
OrgRef?
Open Corporates?
LEI?
The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID
Organisation identifiers:

22. The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID
Organisation identifiers:

23. We aren’t the only
ones who think
so…

24. “Stakeholders interviewed for
this study typically described
identifying organisations as “a
nightmare.”
—JISC/CASRAI Organisation ID study

25. Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID
Organisation identifiers:
Gaps

28. Why Us?

29. • We all need Organisation
Identifiers
• We know the identifier space
• We each represent a broad
community
• We are willing to take it on

30. We cannot create a
completely new
organisation for every
identifier initiative we
create.

31. Requirements

32. Organisational

35. ORCID Principles

36. coverage
governance
sustainability
insurance

37. “Principles for Open
Scholarly Infrastructure”
Bilder G, Lin J, Neylon C
(2015) http://doi.org/9wj

38. Technical

39. “But aren’t organisation
identifiers easier than
identifiers for people?”
(cue laughter)

40. • Merge
• Split
• Have Aliases (e.g. “Trade Name”)
• Die (e.g. bankruptcy)
• Be Reborn (e.g. emerge from bankruptcy)
• Have Sub organisations
• Have Affiliated organisations
Organisations do irritating things like….

42. Harvard University

43. Subscriptions Subscriptions
Harry Elkins Widener Memorial
Library

44. 128.103.*.*
131.142.*.*
140.247.*.*
207.86.182.*
134.174.4.* -- 134.174.7.*
134.174.14.* -- 134.174.17.*
134.174.140.* -- 134.174.174.*
134.174.178.* -- 134.174.191.*
134.174.193.*
199.94.0.* -- 199.94.47.*
212.171.47.146
Subscriptions Subscriptions

45. Legal
Entity
Legal
Entity
President & Fellows of Harvard College

46. Affiliations Affiliations
Harvard University - Berkman
Center for Internet & Society

49. gbilder@crossref.org
Thank You
@gbilder