Presentation by Todd Carpenter at the CENDI/NFAIS/RDA/NAS conference "Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem" at the National Library of Medicine on November 15, 2017
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Identify Everything: Role of standard identifiers in communicating science
1. Identify Everything:
The role of standard identifiers in
communicating science
Todd A. Carpenter
Executive Director, NISO
November 15, 2017
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National Information Standards Organization
(NISO)
Independent non-profit industry trade association accredited by
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards related to
information, documentation, discovery and distribution of
published materials and media
More than 230 members worldwide
Staff led but work is done by 500+ volunteers spread across the
world
Standards which we create/manage/support:
ISBN Dublin Core Altmetrics/Usage Data
ISSN OpenURL Resource Access/Authentication
DOI Licensing E-resource management
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So many types of outputs
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/pubtypes.html
4. Research outputs of all sort
Class: Basic Science
Class: Capacity
Class: Code and Software
Class: Communications
Class: Data
Class: Education and Training Materials
Class: Event
Class: Grey Literature
Class: Images, Diagrams, and Video
Class: Industry
Class: Instruments, Devices, and Inventions
Class: Methodologies
Class: Other
Class: Publications
Class: Regulatory, Compliance, and Legislation
Class: Standards
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5. Persistent ID in each of these domains
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computing
general
government
lifesciences
locations
mathematics
media
personid
physicalsciences
publishing
standards
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A Word of Caution About Identifiers
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Identification means more than
disambiguation
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-4
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8320-0491
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It is not the disambiguation
of the identifier that is
valuable.
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It is not the disambiguation
of the identifier that is
valuable.
It is the infrastructure that
supports the ID that creates
value
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Managing identifiers and
metadata well
is difficult and expensive
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Managing identifiers and
metadata poorly
can be more expensive
and probably in ways you
can’t track.
22. Thank you!
Todd A. Carpenter
Executive Director
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
SECRETARY, ISO Technical Committee 46, Subcommittee 9,
Information & Documentation - Identification & Description
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211-1950 U.S.A.
(301) 654-2512
tcarpenter@niso.org
tc46sc9@niso.org
www.niso.org
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