Vanessa Fairhurst talks about the Organization ID Project, now known as 'Onyar'. Presented at Crossref LIVE local Hannover, June 27th 2018.

1. Organizational
Identifiers

2. The power of PIDs

3. We still have a
problem

4. The problem:

5. The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
etc.
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID

6. The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
etc.
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID
Organisation identifiers:

7. ISNI?
Ringgold?
FundRef?
GRID?
OrgRef?
Open Corporates?
LEI?
The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
etc.
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID
Organisation identifiers:

8. The problem:
Content identifiers:
DataCite
Crossref
etc.
Contributor identifiers:
ORCID
Organisation identifiers:

9. There is a well documented
need for a comprehensive,
open, and accessible
organisation identifier
infrastructure.

10. “Stakeholders interviewed for
this study typically described
identifying organisations as “a
nightmare.”
—JISC/CASRAI Organisation ID study

11. Ed Pentz
Patricia Cruse
Laure Haak
@HaakYak
@epentz
@trishacruse

12. Why Us?

13. • We all need Organisation Identifiers
• We know the identifier space
• We each represent a broad
community
• We are willing to take it on

14. Crossref - what do we want to achieve?
• An open, community-governed, sustainable
organization identifier registry
• Address the scholarly affiliation use case for the
research community - focus
• Balance trust in governance, sustainability and
operational efficiency
• Add affiliations to the metadata members deposit with
Crossref
• Merge Open Funder Registry into the new registry
Crossref - what do we want to achieve?
• An open, community-governed, sustainable
organization identifier registry
• Address the scholarly affiliation use case for the
research community
• Balance trust in governance, sustainability and
operational efficiency
• Add affiliations to the metadata members deposit with
Crossref
• Merge Open Funder Registry into the new registry

15. What has been
done?

16. Work so far…
• Gathered together work from CASRAI, Jisc, NISO, ODIN,
RDA & THOR.
• Assembled illustrative use cases
• Community feedback at CNI and Force11 workshops
• Consulted with other players in the organisation identity
space
• Talked with our respective members.
• Sessions at Pidapalooza conference November 2016 and
January 2018

17. Requirements:
1. Technical
2. Organizational

18. “But aren’t organisation
identifiers easier than
identifiers for people?”
(cue laughter)

19. • Merge
• Split
• Have Aliases (e.g. “Trade Name”)
• Die (e.g. bankruptcy)
• Be Reborn (e.g. emerge from bankruptcy)
• Have Sub organisations
• Have Affiliated organisations
Organisations do irritating things like….

21. Harvard University

22. Membership Membership
Harvard University

23. Subscriptions Subscriptions
Harry Elkins Widener Memorial
Library

24. 128.103.*.*
131.142.*.*
140.247.*.*
207.86.182.*
134.174.4.* -- 134.174.7.*
134.174.14.* -- 134.174.17.*
134.174.140.* -- 134.174.174.*
134.174.178.* -- 134.174.191.*
134.174.193.*
199.94.0.* -- 199.94.47.*
212.171.47.146
Subscriptions Subscriptions

25. Legal
Entity
Legal
Entity
President & Fellows of Harvard College

26. Affiliations Affiliations
Harvard University - Berkman
Center for Internet & Society

28. What is an
“organisation”?

30. Framing principles
• Support reliable, open, permanent, and unambiguous
identification of organizations with whom researchers are
affiliated
• Will not be limited by institutional, stakeholder, business,
geographic, or national boundaries.
• Participation in the registry and access to its services will be
based on transparent and non-discriminatory terms of use.
• The identifier and metadata supporting the disambiguation of
organizations will be available as Open Data.

31. Framing principles
• Sustainable business model based on revenue generation
consistent with its mission to ensure its long-term stability.
• All software developed for the registry will be publicly released
under an Open Source Software license approved by the
Open Source Initiative.
• For the software it adopts, the initiative will prefer Open Source.
• The registry will be governed by representatives from a broad
cross-section of stakeholders drawn from the community,
the majority not-for-profit organizations.

32. Organization ID Working Group
• Christopher Brown, Jisc
• John Chodacki, California Digital Library
• Laura Cox, Ringgold
• Trisha Cruse, DataCite
• Tim Devenport, Editeur
• Mike Frame, U.S. Geological Survey
• Danny Goroff, Sloan Foundation
• Laure Haak, ORCID
• Christina Hoppermann, Springer Nature
• Andres Mori, Digital Science
• Ed Pentz, Crossref
• Paul Peters, Hindawi Publishing
• Andrew Pitts, The IP Registry
• Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth
Sciences
• Arthur Smith, American Physical
Society
• Thomas Vestdam, Elsevier
• Simeon Warner, Cornell University
https://orcid.org/content/organization-identifier-working-group

33. Next steps
•Steering group → Interim Executive Committee tasked
with developing a proposal for launching the initiative
•Interim Community Governing Council set up
•Proposals to finalize the host organization
•ORCID, DataCite and Crossref now discussing
detailed proposals - Onyar is the working name

34. Thank You!