A brief presentation about the THOR project (https://project-thor.eu/) British Library Research Data Network

1. THOR is funded by the European Commission under
call H2020-EINFRA-2014-2, project number 654039
Persistent
Identification and
the THOR project
Dr Angela Dappert

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Persistent identifiers:
a key infrastructure for research
• Persistent Identifier
– A name, not an address
– Globally unique
– Globally resolvable
– Bound to core metadata
– Interlinkable
– Interoperable
– Resolvable as an HTTP URI
– Professionally managed
– Backed by a commitment
(From the ODIN project:
http://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.824314)

3. 3 27 June 2017
Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Technical
and
Human
Infrastructure
for
Open
Research
Our goal is to ensure
that every researcher,
at any phase of their career,
or at any institution,
will have seamless access to Persistent
Identifiers (PIDs) for their research artefacts
and
their work can be uniquely attributed to them.

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
THOR Services …
… put research into practice!
– Biological and Medical Sciences
– Environmental and Earth Sciences
– Physical Sciences
– Social Sciences and Humanities

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Project partners
June 2015
–
Nov 2017

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Project partners
June 2015
–
Nov 2017

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Project partners
June 2015
–
Nov 2017

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Resear-
cher
The Research Landscape
Data
DataCite ORCID

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Resear-
cher
The Research Landscape
Data
Article
DataCite ORCID

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Many Interesting Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Few Well-Supported Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Few Well-Supported Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Few Well-Supported Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Few Well-Supported Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Few Well-Supported Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Few Well-Supported Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

17. 17 27 June 2017
Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Few Well-Supported Relationships
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Data
The Research Landscape
Patent
Grant
Resear-
cher
Funder
Organi-
sation
Project
Article
Software
Data
Management
Plan
Publisher

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
What is the problem?
• Complete, high-quality information enables
– Impact assessment
– Credit assignment
– Rights assignment
– Building on results
– Validating results
– …

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
THOR results in ….
• Better understanding
• Improved production services
• New services
• Changes in landscape

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Better understanding / improved production
services / new services / changes in landscape
• Link across multiple schemes (DOI-ORCID integration):
gaps, align metadata
• Facilitate information exchange on a technical level – adjust APIs
• Cross-link alternate and related identifiers:
claim, auto-update, equivalence, versioning
• Organisational adaptation:
PIDs in data publishing workflows, support data citation
• …

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Better understanding / improved production
services / new services / changes in landscape
• …
• Resolution methods:
dynamic data, content negotiation, machine-readable license
information
• PIDs for dynamic data, data subsets
• Long-term PID life-cycle
• Organisation and funder IDs
• What limits capacity building and growth?
Collect metrics: track events, analyse data, visualise

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Angela Dappert
www.bl.uk
http://project-thor.eu
Progress and Sustainability
• Develop performance indicators for:
– interoperability
– service integration
– capacity building
• Track adoption
• Review and adjust business
models
• http://dashboard.project-
thor.eu