Using ORCID and persistent identifiers to connect, link...

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Using ORCID and persistent identifiers to connect, link, cite and credit research

Research Support Community Day - Sydney, 24 May 2019

Natasha Simons

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What’s the problem?

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are a long-lasting reference to a

resource

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PIDs to the rescue!

Image source: Laurence Horton @laurencedata via https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/04/23/digital-object-identifiers-stability-for-citations/

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Minting PIDs requires some metadata

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PID systems require technical, governance, community

…...and there are lots of PID systems out there!

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Why does the ARDC care about PIDs? Why should you?

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Dr Brown is upset that the data is not linked from the article

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Data repository managers to the rescue!

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The Scholix framework facilitates article-data linking

Institutional Data Repository record:

Dataset titleCreatorsDateDOI or other PID (for the data)Related DOI (for the article)Researchers’ ORCIDs

Scholix link exchange package(Data DOI or other PID & article DOI)Researchers’ ORCIDs

Publisher queries Scholix hubs

Publisher articles database - Displays article with link to dataset held in repository

Scholix Hubs

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Dr Red is upset: she can’t find out if the data she collected has been cited, tweeted, blogged etc

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Administrator Gold is upset: she wants to know the impact her institution’s research is having

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Enter Research (PID) Graph

What PID graph does:

● Exposes open links (connections and relationships) between

research objects, outputs, people

● Exposes activity that occurs around research objects e.g.

data citations, social media mentions

Benefits for research stakeholders:

● Enhances discovery of research

● Facilitates tracking the impact of research

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Power of PID graph for research

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Research (PID) graph view of a dataset context from Research Data Australia:

“Pharmaceutical Industry funded events for Australian Health Professionals”

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Nature cares about Research (PID) Graph!

https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.99

● Build systems that can assign and capture PIDs for research

objects, outputs, people

● Integrate PID minting and capturing into research workflows

● Contribute article-data links held in your repository/systems

to Scholix via Research Data Australia

● Promote PIDs to researchers - but only when they need to

know

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What does this mean for you?

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But which PIDs? There are so many...

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People identifiers

Image source (left): https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/research/managing-and-evaluating-your-research/orcid

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People identifiers

Looks like….

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People identifiers

Researchers

Institutions

Used for:

➔ Articles

➔ Data

➔ Grey literature

➔ Instruments

➔ Grants

➔ ...and more...

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Digital Objects like articles and data

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Digital Objects like articles and data

Looks like….

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Physical sample identifiers

International Geo Sample Number

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Physical sample identifiers

Looks like….

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Organisation identifiers

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Organisation identifiers

Looks like….

Research Activity Identifiers

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Project identifiers

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Project identifiers

Looks like….

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Grant identifiers

For ARC and NHMRC grants

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Grant identifiers

Looks like….

NLA Party IDLSIDGeoNameIDRRIDARKNCBI Accession NumberResearcherIDScopusIDCAS Registry NumberPDB ID..and so many more!

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Long tail of PIDs

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That’s confusing! Can I have it again please?

● Build systems that can assign and capture PIDs for research

objects, outputs, people

● Integrate PID minting and capturing into research workflows

● Contribute article-data links from your repository/systems to

Scholix via Research Data Australia

● Promote PIDs to researchers - but only when they need to

know

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Today’s key take home message

If you liked it then you should have put a PID on it!

Photo by Emily Bauman on Unsplash

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Brought to you by PIDagogy

Coming soon to a campus near you!

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With thanks to Twitter’s @LegoAcademics

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Contact

PIDs nerd!