PowerPoint-Präsentation SM Adoption and Integration of Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management – Preliminary Findings – Rebecca Bryant, PhD OCLC Research, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881 bryantr@oclc.org @rebeccabryant18 LIBER2017, Patras – July 2017 Annette Dortmund, PhD OCLC EMEA http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-9749 dortmuna@oclc.org @libsun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881 mailto:bryantr@oclc.org http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-9749 mailto:dortmuna@oclc.org The aggregation, curation, & utilization of metadata about research activities Overlapping terms: • CRIS (Current Research Information System) • RNS (Research Networking System) • RPS (Research Profiling System) • RIMs ≠ researcher platforms like ResearchGate or Academia.edu • RIM ≠ Research Data Management (RDM) What is Research Information Management (RIM)? 4 “Long-lasting reference to a digital object that gives information about that object regardless what happens to it.” Types: • Digital Object Identifiers (e.g. DOI) • Person Identifiers (e.g. ORCID, ISNI, DAI) • Organization Identifiers (e.g. GRID, ISNI) • PIDs ≠ authority files • Not every ID is a PID • OCLC ≠ ISNI What are Persistent Identifiers (PID)? Definition: http://dictionary.casrai.org/Persistent_identifier http://dictionary.casrai.org/Persistent_identifier • Research institutions increasingly engaged in RIM Why study PIDs in RIM? • Scaling efforts at national and transnational level • Advancing technologies & standards offer new opportunities for interoperability and discoverability • PIDs expected to be playing a key role in these developments OCLC Research & RIM ORLP working groups • Survey on Research Information Management Practices (in collaboration with EuroCRIS) • Value proposition of libraries in RIM Webinars Listserv • Community resource for shared Research and Development (R&D) since 1978 • Devoted to challenges facing libraries and archives • Engagement with OCLC members and the community around shared concerns Why us? OCLC Research RESEARCH PROJECT Adoption and Integration of Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management • “Adoption and Integration of PIDs in European RIM“ • Examining the nexus of RIM with persistent identifiers • Focus on person and organizational identifiers • Objective: Gain useful insights on emerging practices and challenges in research management at different levels of scale Project Information OCLC Research • Rebecca Bryant (lead) • Annette Dortmund • Constance Malpas Project team in collaboration with LIBER • Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen (National Library Finland) • Birgit Schmidt (State and University Library Göttingen) • Esa-Pekka Keskitalo (National Library Finland) • Investigate RIM practices in three national contexts: Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands • Desk research followed by semi-structured interviews • Focus on adoption and integration of persistent identifiers; identify incentives for adoption • Investigate potential links between PID adoption and different levels of scale Case Study Approach • Netherlands: Leiden University, VU Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Radboud University / euroCRIS, SURF • Germany: University of Münster, University of Kassel, FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), BASE Bielefeld, German National Library • Finland: Aalto University, University of Eastern Finland, University of Jyväskylä, University of Helsinki, CSC • PID organizations: ORCID & ISNI Interview partners Project schedule Define research scope Winter 2016-2017 Desk research Later winter 2017 Interviews Spring 2017 Synthesis & writing Summer & fall 2017 Publish research report Late fall 2017 Additional webinars & presentations 2018 NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES Person PIDs in use: 15 RIM DAI DAI Netherlands DAI Incentives: • Internal (publication management, researcher profiles …) • External (National mandate for DAI, OA mandate, wish to internationalize ...) • Scaling (consortial efforts, data sharing opportunities, …) Efforts to internationalize the existing national standard (DAI to ISNI/ORCID). Person PIDs (NL): Established national standard Person PIDs in use: 17 RIM VIRTA / Juuli Finland Incentives: • Internal (publication management, researcher profiles, need for unique persistent IDs …) • External (Publishers requesting ORCID iD, complete data on publications for national funding …) • Scaling (planned national research information hub, open science …) Barriers: Not required by funders at the outset. ROI unclear. Person PIDs (FI): Strong incentives Person PIDs in use: 19 RIM Germany BASE (Repository) Incentives: • Internal (publication management, researcher profiles, …) • External / scaling (standards, good practice) [very limited] Barriers: Not required by funders, no real need in absence of regional or national RIM scaling efforts. ROI unclear. Effects of ORCID links with BASE and national authority file GND yet unknown. Person PIDs (DE): „There are no external incentives“ Infrastructures in comparison FURTHER OBSERVATIONS Mandates drive RIM and PID adoption today • Impact assessment (national, funder) • Open access (national, funder) • Requirement of ORCID iDs by funders, publishers • Concern: Loss of institutional autonomy / control Convenience important to drive researcher engagement • ORCID auto-update capabilities • ORCID integration into identity management Top down vs. bottom up Much interest, little activity. „Watching the space.“ • No urgent need, no immediate problem to solve. • Big need, but too complex to solve alone. • ICT organizations brainstorming options for (temporary) work-arounds at national level, but no firm plans yet. • Getting funders on board will be very important for adoption of whatever PID develops. Organizational identifiers Broad range of view on researcher role in RIM. Ranging from full responsibility - “it is their job to register their publications” to some responsibility / role - requesting researchers to enter information, support from support desk or library to do so to no responsibility / role - “researchers do not touch the CRIS” [as an option preferred by the admins!] Role of Researchers in RIM WHAT’S NEXT? • Upcoming blog post on hangingtogether.org • Report to be published in late fall this year • Webinars & presentations in 2018 • OCLC Research in progress (ORLP) • Survey of Research Information Management Practices Opens in late 2017, in collaboration with euroCRIS • Research report on the valuable roles of libraries in RIM (Fall 2017) What‘s next? Stay tuned oc.lc/rim #OCLCResearch hangingtogether.org http://www.oclc.org/research/themes/research-collections/rim.html Discussion Rebecca Bryant, PhD OCLC Research, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881 bryantr@oclc.org @rebeccabryant18 Annette Dortmund, PhD http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-9749 dortmuna@oclc.org @libsun OCLC EMEA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881 mailto:bryantr@oclc.org http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-9749 mailto:dortmuna@oclc.org