Who do you think you are?

Audit Stablise Enhance Connect-> increase your data profile

Why is identity important for YOU?

To make KNOWN and CONNECT• you + your research, publishing and teaching activities• 24/7 business card & CV – online, not in your pocket

To ENABLE• collation of attributions, names and affiliations• all research outputs (publications, presentations, software, data) to be counted

towards assessment

To INCREASE• citations• funding: eg crowd source contributions to funds?• new contacts for research cooperation• new models of collaboration

Why is identity important for Y’ALL?

Global: cross discipline, cross institution, internat’lLearn & Link: to potential collaborators

Timely: research and publications thru alerts, likes, recommendations

Network: past, present and future colleagues –> broader networks than professional scholarly “meetings”

(eg emails, conferences, projects)

4 simple steps to increase your research data profile

1. Audit2. Stabilise 3. Enhance 4. Connect and Join (judiciously)

Step 1: Audit

A 20th Century example Who is she?

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=1037002

1845-1927 http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-466159

Maybanke Susannah Selfe Maybanke Selfe

Maybanke Susannah WolstenholmeMaybanke Wolstenholme Mrs Edmund Wolstenholme

Maybanke Susannah Anderson Maybanke Anderson Mrs. Francis Anderson

Step 2: Stabilise A 21st Century example: I am Flossy Sox

Family names

Karen Maree Young

Kass, Kassie

Jane (from Mum when I was naughty)

Karen Maree Visser

Karen Visser (Facebook) +85 others

karencanberra (anything trivial)

Kaz.visser (hotmail)

?? (Trove editing, Twitter)

Professional names

u4020222

karenmvisser (skype)

Karen.Visser@... (ANDS & ANU)

Karen Visser (publications)

?? (LinkedIn, +, +)

#andsdata

Flossy Sox

kaz.visser (gmail) -> Karen.visser@ands.org.au

Step 1 & 2: Audit & Stabilise

Who are you? The curse of the common nameeNames Professional names

Step 3: Enhance your data identityYour key academic data identity hotspots include (but not limited to):

– Your CV– Your institutional Professional profile/s – Discipline repositories– ORCID

– ResearcherID– Scopus Author ID– ResearchGate – Academia.edu – Mendeley

www.cdlib.org/uc3/docs/NSF_products_flyer.pptx

Step 3: Enhance your data identity

.....in your CV

Step 3: Enhance your data identity

.... in your institutional professional profile/s

WhyDevelopedProfessionally designed Maintained SustainableFree Populated by other systemsPoint of TruthAuthenticated

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/john-germov

Step 3: Enhance your data identity

.... extend your institutional professional profile/s

Data ain’t just 0101011

*Visualisations*Recordings*Metrics*Tightly link data <> publications

Step 4: Connect .... judiciously

Step 4: Connect .... ORCID

Who knows who you are?

Audit Stablise Enhance Connect-> increase your data profile