Transcript Overlap among members of group actor types? How are differences in data models , provenance – maintained ? Google Scholar LinkedIn Mendeley Libraries NACO RERO GNL Book Publishers … How do corrections, annotations, and conflicting assertions on public profile presentation propagate back ? Individually Maintained Profile VIAF (Identifiers) Individuals, Pseudonyms, Organizations, Uniform titles, Fictional Names Library.

Overlap among
members of
group actor
types?
How are differences in
data models ,
provenance –
maintained ?
Google
Scholar
LinkedIn
Mendeley
Libraries
NACO
RERO
GNL
Book
Publishers
…
How do corrections,
annotations, and
conflicting
assertions on
public profile
presentation
propagate back ?
Individually
Maintained
Profile
VIAF
(Identifiers)
Individuals,
Pseudonyms,
Organizations,
Uniform titles,
Fictional Names
Library Catalogs
Library Catalog
Gateway
Ringold
(Org
Names)
ISNI
Registration
Agencies/M
embers
Bowker
Individual
Researchers
ORCID
Member
Research
Orgs
Scholarly
Publishers
National
Research
Institutions
VIVO
Member
Research
Orgs
Funder
Maintained
Profiles
(e.g. ScienceCV)
ORCID:
(Identifiers &
Researcher
outputs)
Living Researchers
National Identifier
Systems
(Identifier)
E.g. DAI
VIVO:
(Researcher
Outputs)
Researchers from
Member
Institutions
Aggregator:
Internal/Privat
e
Controlled
Information
Source
Uncontrolled
Information
Source
Anonymous Pull
ISNI
(Identifiers)
Individuals,
Pseudonyms, &
Organizations
CrossRef:
(Publication)
Journal Authors
Aggregator:
(Content Type)
Scope
Institutional
Repository
Catalogs
Institutional
Repository
Gateway
Authenticated Pull
Authenticated Push
Actor
Type
Specific
Actor
CRIS Instances
E.g. Symplectic,
METIS
Organizational
Directory
Profile
Harvard
Profiles/Other
Institutionally
Deployed Profile
systems
CAP
Public
View
Question
?
Observations/General Questions
• Much information flows through automated interfaces from left (member
organizations) to right (public profiles), but in a complex way.
– Not clear how systematically provenance is maintained as data flows
– Not clear how differences in data models, scope (pseudonyms), semantics are
resolved/handled as data flows downstream. Assume data is
flattened/normalized as it moves from system to system, and some
information not expressible in downstream system simply lost before it
reaches presentation
• Information flowing the opposite way is mostly through out-of-band
mechanisms
– manual corrections
– ad-hoc processes or not publicly documented
– Generally limited ability for information presented in later stages to be
corrected, annotated, etc and for corrections, or other assertions to propagate
back up to source.
• Overlap among source institutions clearly exists, remains to be mapped
out. Not clear how feed in to different sources are coordinated.