Presentation by John Kaye, Lead Curator Digital Social Science, British Library. Covered the ODIN and ORCID projects

1. ODIN –
ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network
Association of Librarians and Information
Professionals in the Social Sciences
July 2013
John Kaye – British Library
Funded by The European Union Seventh Framework
Programme
www.odin-project.eu

2. Summary
• Identifiers
• ODIN Overview
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• High Energy Physics
• Next Steps

3. Identifers
• Uniquely identify
Research Objects
• Digital Object Identifiers
• DataCite (DOI’s)
• CrossRef DOI’s

4. Identifers
• Uniquely identify Research
Objects
• Archival Research Key’s
(ARK’s)
• International Standard
Book Numbers (ISBN’s)
• Uniform Resource
Locators (URL’s)
• Institutional and other ID’s

5. People Identifers
• Uniquely identify
people
• Open Researcher
and Contributor ID
(ORCID)
• International
Standard Name
Identifier (ISNI)
• Country Based
ID’s

6. ORCID
• Infrastructure already exists for researchers to build up a unique
open portfolio of research objects

7. ORCID
• Register an ORCID ID www.orcid.org and link published papers
using ORCID’s tools

8. Using Identifiers
• View the impact of your work using traditional citation metrics and
social citations

9. Using Identifiers
Actions on data and their reliance on metadata, data citation, and data management (adapted
from Altman, 2012).

10. ODIN Partners

11. ODIN Objectives
• We want to support development and stimulate adoption
of interoperable identifiers for:
• Researchers
• Inputs (cited work, data)
• Outputs (publications and data)
• We aim to facilitate information flow within and between
research communities, leading to greater re-use of data
and exploitation of the knowledge created.

12. ODIN Challenges
Accessibility: seamlessly access datasets used in a journal article, a
grant report, or another scholarly artefact
Discovery: identify scholarly works or datasets related to each other
either through networks of references and citation or through shared
contributors
Interoperability: connect datasets and contributors across
independent platforms using different, but interoperable identifier
schemes.
Sustainability: ongoing viability of the systems that provide and
maintain persistent identifiers.

13. ODIN Work Streams
• Proofs of Concept in Humanities and
Social Science and High Energy Physics
• Interoperability
• Strategy
• Internationalisation

14. ODIN Developments
• Developed from work carried out in Interoperability Work Stream
• Based on CrossRef Import Tool
• Searches DataCite Metadata store and allows users to import
datasets into their ORCID Profile
• http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org/ - Feedback welcome!

15. Humanities and
Social Sciences (HSS)
Image from National Survey for Health and Development

16. HSS: Birth Cohort Studies
• Why Birth Cohort Studies?
• Investment
• Established/Long history
• Tradition of data curation
• Multiple Data Providers
• High Re-use
• Derived Data
• Multi-disciplinary
• BL Involvement in CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal
Studies Enhancement Resource)

17. HSS: Objectives
• 1st
Year: Preliminary conceptual models for connecting
data creators, curators, contributors and data sets will be
described
• 2nd
Year: Concrete workflows will be designed and
developed
• The development of such workflows will be done in
strong collaboration with the relevant stakeholders in
the community

18. HSS: Approach
• Technical work – http://odin-discover.eu/
• Conversations and Interviews:
• Cohort Study Teams
• UK Data Service
• International Data Providers
• Visit from Australian Data Archive

19. HSS: Approach
Data Sources and Linking in http://odin-discover.eu/

20. Humanities and
Social Sciences (HSS)
http://odin-discover.eu/

21. HSS Current Attribution

22. HSS Current Attribution

23. Workflows
• Consult with Data Centres and providers to see where identifiers fit
in their workflows
• Assigning roles and names
• Assigning identifiers to new datasets
• Assigning identifiers to exsiting datasets
• How to integrate identifiers into DDI
• Push more metadata into DataCite
• Provide feedback to datacentres
• ‘Nudge’ researchers to cite data properly

24. Workflows (Data Centre
Ingest)

25. Workflows (Citation)

26. HSS Next Steps
• 1st
Year report due in August 2013
• Year 2 HSS tasks
• Work with National Survey for Health and Development to implement workflows
• Encourage social science data providers to adopt people ID’s
• Provide feedback tools for data providers
• Look at assigning ORCID’s to other metadata – Ethos
• Linking bibliographic citation data for Impact tracking and enhanced discovery
• Explore commonalities with High Energy Physics

27. High Energy Physics

28. Current status (I)
HEP (High-Energy Physics) field specificities:
• Multiversioning: from preprint versions until final
publications
• Hyperauthorship: hundreds/thousands of scientists signing
the same article
• Data levels of abstraction (CERN, Inspire, HEPData)
• Different publication spaces (arXiv, Inspire, publishers)
Challenges:
• Author identification, improvement of the disambiguation
process done in place
• Uniquely associate articles/datasets with authors/contributors
• Version management during the long publication process

29. High Energy Physics (HEP)
Current Inspire interface

30. High Energy Physics (HEP)
Current Inspire interface
 Disambiguation process
among thousands of authors:
 Names and affiliations
 Different ways to write the
same information
 Clustering algorithm

31. ODIN Next Steps
• Reports available in Summer 2013
• 1st Year Event and Codesprint @ CERN 15th
- 17th
October 2013
• http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org/ - Feedback welcome!
• Input into and Social Science Proof of Concept,
workflows etc. please contact us!

32. Thank you!
John Kaye – Lead Curator Digital Social Sciences
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
john.kaye@bl.uk
Twitter: @johnkayebl
Telephone: 020 7412 7450
Project Website http://odin-project.eu/
BL Social Sciences Blog http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/socialscience/