OCLC Research Library Partnership MeetingMelbourne, Australia2 December 2015

Working with OCLC Research Library Partners on Researcher & Organisational

Identifiers

Karen Smith-YoshimuraOCLC Research

• Funder/government-led initiatives to ensure valuefor the research that gets funded

• Hard to quantify, track and classify

• Challenging to get underlying data tomap the pathway to impact

Impact

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One indicator of impact

We initially use bibliometric analysis to look at the top institutions, by publications and citation count for the past ten years…

Universities are ranked by several indicators of academic or research performance, including… highly cited researchers…

Citations… are the best understood and most widely accepted measure of research strength.

Examples:• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054099• isni.org/isni/000000012179088X • http://viaf.org/viaf/146316977• wikidata.org/wiki/Q319078 Identify:

• A unique, persistent and public URI associated with a digital object

• Resolvable globally over networks • Unambiguous to use, find and identify the resource.

Identifiers!!!

• Researchers interact with many internal and external systems

• Machine readable data structure and unique identifiers are critical for:o Authenticationo Validationo De-duplication

• Identifiers enable data to be trusted and re-used at a network scale

Identifiers: Glue for institutions and funder systems

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Same name, different people

Conlon, Michael. 1982. Continuously adaptive M-estimation in the linear model. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1982.

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One researcher may have many profiles or identifiers…

(from an email signature block)Profiles: Academia / Google Scholar / ISNI / Mendeley / MicrosoftAcademic / ORCID / ResearcherID / ResearchGate / Scopus /  Slideshare /  VIAF /  Worldcat

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Registering Researchers in Authority Files Task Group Members

• Micah Altman, MIT - ORCID Board member• Michael Conlon, U. Florida – PI for VIVO• Ana Lupe Cristan, Library of Congress – LC/NACO trainer• Laura Dawson, Bowker – ISNI Board member• Joanne Dunham, U. Leicester• Amanda Hill, U. Manchester – UK Names Project• Daniel Hook, Symplectic Limited• Wolfram Horstmann, U. Oxford• Andrew MacEwan, British Library – ISNI Board member• Philip Schreur, Stanford – Program for Cooperative Cataloging• Laura Smart, Caltech – LC/NACO contributor• Melanie Wacker, Columbia – LC/NACO contributor• Saskia Woutersen, U. Amsterdam

• Thom Hickey, OCLC Research – VIAF Council, ORCID Board

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Stakeholders & needs

Researcher

Disseminate researchCompile all outputFind collaboratorsEnsure network presence correctRetrieve other’s scholarly output to track a given discipline

Funder Track funded research outputsUniversity administrator

Collate intellectual output of their researchers to fulfill funder or national mandates, internal reporting

Librarian Disambiguate names

Identity management system

Associate metadata, output to researcherDisambiguate namesLink researcher's multiple identifiersDisseminate identifiers

Aggregator (includes publishers)

Associate metadata, output to researcherCollate intellectual output of each researcherDisambiguate namesLink researcher's multiple identifiersTrack history of researcher's affiliationsTrack & communicate updates

Researcher Identifier Information Flow

• Researcher: Get persistent identifier (early in career) & use on all external communications

• Librarian/University administrator: Advocate benefits and reasons for using and disseminating identifiers

• Need for third-party name identifier reconciliation service

Key recommendations

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-registering-researchers-2014-overview.html

• Link related sets of person identifiers and authorities (e.g., VIAF, ISNI, LC/NACO Authority File)

• Surface WorldCat Person entities, and map to identifiers for same person

• Seven pilot participants (5 OCLC RLPs):– Cornell University– Harvard University– Library of Congress– National Library of Medicine (US)– National Library of Poland– Stanford University– University of California, Davis

Person Entity Lookup Pilot

OCLC Research Task Force on Organisations in ISNI

Karen Smith-Yoshimura OCLC Research (leader)Grace Agnew Rutgers UniversityChristopher Brown JISC (UK) (CASRAI)Kate Byrne University of New South WalesMatt Carruthers University of Michigan Naun Chew Cornell UniversityPeter Fletcher UCLAJanifer Gatenby OCLC Leiden (ISNI Assignment Agency)Stephen Hearn University of MinnesotaXiaoli Li University of California, DavisMarina Muilwijk University of UtrechtRoderick Sadler La Trobe UniversityJohn Riemer UCLAJing Wang Johns Hopkins UniversityGlen Wiley University of MiamiKayla Willey Brigham Young University

With input from Andrew MacEwan, British Library and Anila Angjeli, Bibliothèque nationale de France 

Examined 13 use cases; producing sample records for each use case

23 recommendations for the system, for the ISNI-IA, for users

Search guidelines for organisations to be produced

Outreach document

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Organisational IDs: Use cases

• Institutions want to track all their scholarly output

• Track research groups which may comprise staff from multiple institutions

• National assessments reporting• Track funding and validate affiliation • Disambiguate researchers’ names

by affiliation• Correctly identify researchers’

affiliations in publications

Many institutions unaware they already have an identifier assigned

• They merge, they split• They acquire/are acquired• They can have multiple departments, schools• Have hierarchies that may change over time• May have multiple hierarchies• Branches in multiple locations or countries• Often unclear when a name change represents

a new organisation• Different stakeholders’ perspectives

Special challenges with organisationsG

Libraries

Text Rights

Music RightsTrade Sources

Encyclopaedias

Researchers & Professional Granting organisations Professional Societies Article databases Theses databases

cross-domain bridging-domains

Archives and Museums

ISNI for Organisational Identifiers

• ORCID uses ISNIs for organisations• Links to and from Virtual International

Authority File (VIAF)• Links in Wikidata

Over 500,000 organisations have public ISNIs

Ex: Relationships for Research Groups

• Augment relationship types and display• Indicate organisation’s own preferred form of name• Publish ISNI ontology• Add Turtle, N-Triple, JSON-LD as linked data options• Create end user input form for organisations• Create ISNIs for Organisations outreach document • Engage organisations to maintain their public identity• Encourage organisations to collaborate with ISNI

Quality Team to diffuse corrections

Recommendations for ISNI

Using Research IdentifiersAn Overview of UNSW’s practice

UNSW Library

Kate ByrneManager, Research Reporting

UNSW Library, UNSW Australia Email: kate.byrne@unsw.edu.au Twitter: @katecbyrne

Research Identifiers for Individuals

• Support researchers using identifiers including:

• Use Symplectic Elements to download publications for researchers based on identifiers and other search settings.

• Developing strategies for ORCID integrations with other UNSW systems.

Author ID Profiles

Research Identifiers for Organisations

• Try to keep UNSW records updated in a range of sources including:

• Undertaking a clean up of UNSW’s records in ISNI and documenting this as a case study.

• Kate Byrne, Member of OCLC Research Task Force on Representing Organisations in ISNI

SMTogether we make breakthroughs possible.

Thank you!Contact: Karen Smith-Yoshimura

OCLC Research Library Partnership Meeting , Melbourne2 December 2015

smithyok@oclc.org

@KarenS-Y

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