Transcript ORCID Use Cases from the CDL

ORCID USE CASES FROM THE CDL
ORCID Participant Meeting
Harvard University May 18, 2011
L i s a S c h i f f, P h . D.
Te c h n i c a l L e a d
P u b l i s h i n g G ro u p
C a l i fo r n i a D i g i t a l L i b r a r y
l i s a . s c h i f f @ u c o p. e d u
California Digital Library (CDL)
History
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Established 1997
Support UC’s pursuit of
scholarship
Extend the University’s public
service mission
Partner in research
Programs
• Collections
• Digital Special Collections
• Discovery & Delivery
• Publishing Group
• University of California Curation Center
(UC3)
Services
• Business Services
• Information Services
• Infrastructure & Applications Support
Services
• Strategic and Project Planning Services
• User Experience Design Services
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Open Access Publishing Services
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Digital Publishing
 Journals
 Books/Monographic
Series
 Working Papers
 Conference Proceedings
 Seminar/Paper Series
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New or Upcoming
 UC
ETDs
 Streaming media
 Undergraduate
publications
 Datasets
Traditional “Repository”
 Postprints
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ORCID Use Cases from the CDL
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ORCIDs in eScholarship’s Publishing Workflow
ORCIDs & Data Mgmt/Publishing Services
Support Researchers in Obtaining ORCIDs
Name Disambiguation in Access & Discovery
Applications
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Archival authority control disambiguation in EAC Records
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Receiving/Sharing Publications with 3rd Parties
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Publication Records
“Expert Finder” Systems
HR/Administrative Systems Record
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ORCIDs in eScholarship’s Publishing Workflow
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Capture ORCIDs as part of eScholarship submission
and publishing workflows for new and previously
published content and include in the object’s
metadata
 Allow
users to submit or
 Query an ORCID service based on name/institution and
have users confirm or
 Retrieve a set of candidate ORCIDs and have the user
choose or
 Prompt the user to generate
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ORCIDs & Data Mgmt/Publishing Services
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Assist/allow inclusion of ORCIDs when researchers
Deposit data sets into CDL’s Merritt Preservation Repository
 Create EZIDs for datasets
 Generate data management plans
 Publish data sets or associate them with publications
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Use ORCIDs to support the ability to
Promote robust data citation and ensure proper accrual of
credit for data set creation.
 Help researchers meet NSF data management plan
requirements
 Ensure clear attribution for datasets made publicly
available.
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Support Researchers in Obtaining ORCIDs
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Help UC affiliated researchers acquire ORCIDS
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part of the publication process, when
submitting/publishing through eScholarship
 Independent of the publication process
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a new service of eScholarship
 Supports inclusion of ORCIDS when using other CDL services
(EZID, Merritt, etc.)
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Author Profile in Submission Workflow
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Submission & Publishing Related Challenges (1)
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Individual researchers
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Users won’t remember their ORCIDs—how to work w/them to get the right one?
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Metadata fatigue--requiring ORCIDs is not realistic, how to encourage instead?
How will proxy submitters (journal editors, unit administrators, research
assistants, librarians) discover/affirm ORCIDS?
Multiple authors
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Will ORCID have an easy way for people to remind themselves of their ORCID?
What routines would have to be in place to ensure that users choose/provide the
correct ORCID?
How to efficiently capture ORCIDs for all authors, not just submitting?
How are high numbers of authors handled--some publications have hundreds
What about corporate authors?
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Multiple Authors
Corporate Authors
Submission & Publishing Related Challenges (2)
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Workflow
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Support
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For articles undergoing peer review, where in the workflow should ORCIDs be included—
after a publication has been accepted? Before? Does it matter?
Would timeframe for obtaining an ORCID disrupt the submission workflow and stop
submissions?
Batch submission—how will ORCIDs in batch uploaded content be checked? How to deal
with errors or ambiguity?
Current process and metadata structures will need to be extended to accommodate
ORCIDs.
Who will address ORCID related questions and problems (AKA customer support)?
Will ORCID services be 24 x 7?
Cost
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How will the costs of contributing to and receiving data from ORCID be distributed?
If researchers can use ORCID for free (for their own information), will there be costs to
institutions who develop systems to facilitate that use?
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Name Disambiguation in Access &
Discovery Applications
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Improve end-user search and browse experiences
by disambiguating author names via reliance on an
underlying identifier
 Browse
lists can resolve to a preferred form
 Search routines can map user submitted versions to
preferred form
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Important in any system with an end-user interface,
from repositories to catalogs
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Name Ambiguity in the Wild
Disambiguation Challenges
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Canonical/preferred name forms, how will we
choose what to use when?
Name variation vs. corrections—will authors
introduce errors?
How to indicate that duplicate names for different
people are not errors (a problem that already
exists, but may be highlighted with improved
disambiguation)
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Archival authority control disambiguation in
Encoded Archival Context Records
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The Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project &
prototype
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Creating a body of Encoded Archival Context – Corporations,
Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) biographical authority records
Processing various historical sources and archival collection
descriptions by employing advanced informatics techniques that
utilize records from the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF).
Entity name creation is challenging: “Buffalo Bill”
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/data/Buffalo Bill 18461917-cr.xml
Identifiers come from multiple sources
Long-term sustainability and maintenance requires a more
robust, managed unique identifier service for entity IDs.
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SNAC Challenges
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Orphans—individuals who are deceased, emeritus
or otherwise no longer engaged with their past
research
Individuals who are not researchers, e.g. Buffalo Bill
Require a single source of identifiers
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Receiving/Sharing Publications with 3rd Parties
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Improve accuracy of publication sharing with 3rd
parties
 BioMed
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Central, PubMed, RePec, LoC, WorldCat, etc.
Current solutions rely on email addresses
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both false positives and false negatives
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“Sharing” Challenges
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Varying degrees of ORCID adoption by 3rd parties
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Will the quality of received need to be checked?
Inconsistent levels of ORCID creation by researchers
Will there be a standard for exposing ORCIDS in
records? Where in Dublin Core, OAI-PMH, etc.
Inclusion of ORCIDs in output like OAI-PMH will vary
tremendously during the early-adoption period
Will authors want to restrict how their identifiers are
shared?
Will authors want reporting on how their identifiers are
shared?
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Publication Records
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Provide utilities that help UC affiliated researchers establish ORCID aware
publication records
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Claim publications
Reject attribution
Dispute various attributions
Indicate different types of published content (journal articles vs. “data papers”)
Use ORCID to help faculty generate publication records for
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Review purposes
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Tailored to specific campus/dept requirements
Work in partnership with campus based initiatives campus
Grant applications/reporting
Organizational records
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Identify all publications across researchers associated with an entity that has an
ORCID
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Publication Record Challenges
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High Stakes—can’t get it wrong
More systems = more confusion
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do faculty do where?
Reporting systems are diverse/complex
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an ORCID “seeded”/generated record be just one
component that has to be then further customized?
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Will organizations or research units have ORCIDS?
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“Expert Finder” Systems
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Administrators want to identify high profile faculty
Researchers want to find collaborators in other
fields
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“Expert Finder” Challenges
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ORCID will have publications, but publications don’t
necessarily map to administrators’ views of
disciplines
How is expertise defined?
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HR/Administrative Systems
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Faculty HR IDs could be replaced w/ORCIDs or
synchronized with them
Could be incorporated into other employment
related systems
Opportunities at campus and system levels
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HR/Admin System Challenges
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High stakes—need to get it right
ORCID talking to PeopleSoft, etc.
Lots of customer support required
Variety of business systems could increase all kinds
of demands on systems
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Final Thoughts
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ORCID can help
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Existing systems
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Researchers/faculty
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Work better
Provide new services to faculty
Integrate with other systems
Better manage their research output
Comply with requirements from funding agencies to administrative
entities
Areas of concern
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Resources required to bring ORCID into systems, existing or new
Usability issues related to ORCID incorporation
Varying researcher participation rates
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