The universe of identifiers and how ANDS is using them

ANDS and Iden+fiers: ODIP Workshop, AIMS, 7/8/2014

Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology

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ANDS Overview §  In existence since 2009 §  Currently c. 40 staff around Australia (mostly Melbourne and Canberra)

§  Scope: Research data (data that researchers produce and use)

§  Provides training, advocacy, services, policy support

§  No real equivalent in other countries CC-‐BY @atreloar 2

ANDS enables these transforma+ons: From data that are: " Uncollected " Unmanaged " Disconnected " Invisible " Single use

To aggrega+ons that are: " Collected " Managed " Connected " Findable " Reusable

so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-‐use research data.

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ANDS online services §  Research Data Australia §  Cite my Data DOI Iden+fier service §  Vocab crea+on/management service + API §  Research Ac+vity iden+fier service + API §  Developer toolbox

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Why have persistent object iden+fiers? §  <conten+ous>Cool URIs can in theory be persistent, but in prac+ce they are suscep+ble to changes to: §  filename §  path §  domain </conten+ous>

§  PIDs can best be seen as an indirec'on layer that reduces bri0leness in gecng to digital objects

§  But, PIDs are not magic pixie dust; assigning a PID does not make the object persistent!


Some thoughts on Persistence: Is it §  Persistence of object?

§  Or mechanism to handle its non-‐persistence

§  Persistence of iden+fier? §  Persistence of binding between iden+fier and object? §  Persistence of service to resolve from iden+fier to object?

§  Persistence of service to allow for upda+ng of binding between iden+fier and object?

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ANDS: Object iden+fiers §  Started out providing Handles service §  Founda+on members of DataCite §  DOI Business model updated => DOI more airac+ve

§  Now Australian DataCite registrar §  min+ng over 2K/month

§  M2M interface only §  Management responsibility lies with data holders 7/08/2014 CC-‐BY @atreloar 9

ANDS: Person/Organisa+on iden+fiers §  Space is complex: ORCID, VIAF, ISNI §  Ini+ally, worked with NLA Trove ID

§  hip://nla.gov.au/nla.party-‐513559 §  But “market momentum” appears to be moving towards ORCID

§  ANDS co-‐hosted very successful ORCID Roundtable with CAUL last month

§  Also member of ORCID Datacite Interoperability Network project


ANDS approach to Data Publishing §  Publishing = making public §  Collected – inten+onally group together data that will be most useful in re-‐use context

§  Managed – store in sustainable loca+on §  Connected – ensure data is connected to context that produced it

§  Findable – register existence of data somewhere that enables its discovery

§  Reusable – ensure data comes with/is connected to enough informa+on for someone else to reuse


Ques+ons? §  ands.org.au

§  [email protected] §  @atreloar

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Key differen+ators for ANDS §  Na+onally co-‐ordinated approach §  Ins+tu+onally-‐focussed engagement

§  “helping them meet their research data ambi+ons”

§  Engaging with large na+onally-‐funded discipline investments

§  Bulk of funds spent outside ANDS §  All disciplines covered §  Focus on adding value to data and re-‐use

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Major programs undertaken (200+ projects) §  Seeding the Commons (fixing the past) §  Data Capture (fixing the future) §  Metadata Stores (managing ins+tu+onal research data assets)

§  Applica+ons (demonstra+ng value of joining data) §  Major Open Data Collec+ons (content focus) §  eResearch Infrastructure Connec+vity (connec+on focus)


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