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VIVO + ORCID = a collaborative project
Gudmundur ‘Mummi’ Thorisson<gt50@le.ac.uk>
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester
ORCID - http://www.orcid.org
GEN2PHEN - http://www.gen2phen.org
-- Outline --
• Self-intro - who am I and how did I get here?
• ORCID - tackling the author/contributor identification challenge
• The VIVO-ORCID collaborative project
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The data sharing problem
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Lack of incentives for sharing
• Effort required to prepare, package and submit datasets to
public repositories
• Time better spent writing papers & grants
• All sticks (funders, journals) - no carrots
• Need incentives - treat data as publications
“[...] Many of the issues regarding data availability can be
addressed if the principles of “publication” rather than “sharing”
are applied. However, online data publication systems also need
to develop mechanisms for data citation and indices of data
access comparable to those for citation systems in print
journals”
Costello, M. Motivating Online Publication of Data. BioScience
(2009) vol. 59 (5) pp. 418-427
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The problem with names
name ambiguity => attribution challenges
How about these?
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The problem with names
name ambiguity => attribution challenges
How about these? Or these?
J. Smith
Are these authors all the same person? J. Smith
G. Thorisson, University of Leicester J. Smith
G. A. Thorisson, University of Leicester J. Smith
G. A. Thorisson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory J. Smith
[etc.]
∼2/3 of the ∼6 million authors in MEDLINE share a last name and first
initial with at least one other author, and an ambiguous name refers to
∼8 persons on average.
Torvik and Smalheiser. Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE. ACM Transactions on Knowledge
Discovery from Data (2009) vol. 3 (3)
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Need to IDENTIFY people as they
contribute to
&
access
Internet resources
• The basic identity problem the
Internet poses is establishing one
party’s identity to another party’s
satisfaction through
communication across the network.
Weitzner. In Search of Manageable Identity Systems. IEEE Internet
Computing (2006) vol. 10 (6) pp. 84-86
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Need to IDENTIFY people as they
contribute to
&
access
Internet resources
• The basic identity problem the
Internet poses is establishing one
party’s identity to another party’s
satisfaction through
communication across the network.
Weitzner. In Search of Manageable Identity Systems. IEEE Internet
Computing (2006) vol. 10 (6) pp. 84-86
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ORCID - tackling the identity problem
?
ORCID
ORCID ID: B-1242-2010 F67572010
G. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester
G. A. Thorisson, Univ. Leicester
G. A. Thorisson, Cold Spring Harbor Lab.
ORCID ID: G-1442-2009
J. Smith, Univ. North Pole
ORCID ID: D-2400-2010
J. Smith, Luthor Corporation
Global registry of disambiguated IDs for contributors:
i) researchers to manage & use their ORCID ID
ii) track author-to-publication attribution links
iii) interact with other systems (e.g. publishers, digital libraries)
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Technology evalutation
+
developer community engagement
[...] The overall aim of the proposed project is to understand how VIVO and ORCID
could interact in the scholarly identity ecosystem. To this end, two main areas of
work are planned. The first will focus on evaluating the VIVO project, the VIVO
technology and its current/planned capabilities, with respect to the core ORCID
mission and its technical requirements. Aims of this analysis include identifying
overlaps and commonalities, and answering questions such as: should ORCID use/
extend the VIVO ontology for semantic interoperability? Could some VIVO software
components be reused/extended by ORCID? How would a researcher interact with
ORCID through his/her institutional VIVO installation?
[...]
Given that a key aim of both VIVO and ORCID is the creation of an infrastructure that
makes information about researchers and their scholarly works openly available, it
would seem that VIVO and ORCID could both benefit from closer collaboration. Both
projects already collaborate strategically, so the aim of this proposal is to foster a
closer technological collaboration.
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Technical development (OK, it’s hacking!)
[...] The aim [...] is to get hands-on experience with the VIVO software itself. This will
be done by implementing several extensions to the VIVO platform to support a subset
of important ORCID use cases, focusing on (but not limited to):
• Search for, retrieve and ingest bibliographical information from the CrossRef system
• Secure, OAuth-based exchange of both public and non-public researcher profile
information between VIVO and an external profile system (e.g. MS tracking system)
Taken together, the outcomes of the project will at a minimum increase ORCID’s
understanding of the VIVO technology,
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Technical development (OK, it’s hacking!)
[...] The aim [...] is to get hands-on experience with the VIVO software itself. This will
be done by implementing several extensions to the VIVO platform to support a subset
of important ORCID use cases, focusing on (but not limited to):
• Search for, retrieve and ingest bibliographical information from the CrossRef system
• Secure, OAuth-based exchange of both public and non-public researcher profile
information between VIVO and an external profile system (e.g. MS tracking system)
Taken together, the outcomes of the project will at a minimum increase ORCID’s
understanding of the VIVO technology,
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Coming autumn 2011, to a venue near you!
Int’l workshop on researcher identity
• Co-organized by CSC (Finland IT Centre for Science)
• Provisional title: “Identity in research infrastructure and
scientific communication" - IRISC
• Location: Helsinki
• Time: September 12-13
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Acknowledgements
This work has received funding from
the European Community's Seventh
Framework Programme
(FP7/2007-2013)
GEN2PHEN Consortium under grant agreement number
http://www.gen2phen.org/about-gen2phen/partners 200754 - the GEN2PHEN project.
Anthony J. Brookes Bioinformatics Group
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