The value of persistent identifiers in research - Natasha Simons (ARDC) & Josh Brown (ORCID) - presented at the ORCID forum in Canberra 6th September 2018

1. The value of persistent identifiers in research
Natasha Simons (ARDC) & Josh Brown (ORCID)
National ORCID Forum
Canberra 6 September 2018

2. What’s the problem?

3. A persistent identifier is a long–lasting reference to a resource
Image credit: Clifford Tatum & John Doove https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5817309

4. PIDs have evolved
Credit: Jonathan Clark, Persistent Identifiers: Why, what and how? THOR webinar, May 2017 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5016803

5. PID systems have proliferated
Marked by differences in:
• Purpose
• Scope
• Underlying technology
• Governance
• Community uptake
• Metadata
• Cost
• etc

6. Researchers Publications
Data
Software
Equipment
Funding
PIDs in Research
PIDs play a key role in research discoverability, accessibility, citability and
reproducibility. They can connect:
Methods
..and more

7. The power of connecting PIDs –
Scholix example

8. But are we making the most of PIDs?

9. Where PIDs add value - workflows
Source: https://orcid.org/blog/2018/06/21/mapping-pid-landscape

10. Where PIDs add value - workflows

11. Where PIDs add value - workflows

12. Where PIDs add value - workflows

13. Getting the most value from PIDs – funders example
Challenges: Grant applications, grant review and decision making, reporting and
impact tracking
Benefits PIDs can bring: Automate standard data collection, improve data
quality, improve reporting accuracy, reduce burden on researchers, demonstrate
impact of the funding agency itself
What funders could consider doing: 1. Assign DOIs for grants 2. Collect
ORCIDs at grant application and reporting 3. Push grant information to ORCIDs
4. Require outputs to have a PID

14. Getting the most value from PIDs – publishers example
Challenges: Article submission, review process, policy compliance (own and
other peoples), making the connections between articles and related outputs
Benefits PIDs can bring: Better user experience for authors, better experience
for reviewers, massively reduced administrative overhead, better connected
articles, enhanced discovery and citation, tracking citations/impact
What publishers could consider doing: 1. Require ORCIDs at article
submission 2. Assign DOIs to articles 3. Require PIDs for all inputs to the article
e.g. datasets, software, samples, grants etc. 4. Embed PIDs in article metadata
5. Collect PIDs as early on as possible (e.g. during submission process)
6. Integrate with Scholix to exchange article-data links

15. International PID initiatives
Working on PIDs to
make research more:
• Finable
• Accessible
• Citable
• Connected

16. With the exception of third party images or where otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under the
Creative Commons 4.0 International Attribution Licence
Natasha Simons
Deputy Chair,
Australian ORCID Advisory Group
Assistant Director, Skilled Workforce
Australian Research Data Commons
natasha.simons@ardc.edu.au
The ARDC is supported by the
Australian Government through the
National Collaborative Research
Infrastructure Strategy Program