Closing Keynote at the 2015 November ORCID Outreach Meeting in San Francisco (3-4 November 2015)

1. @gbilder
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1315-5960

2. Scholarly
infrastructure.
Why are we so
bad at it?
Geoffrey Bilder
Director of Strategic Initiatives
@gbilder
ORCID Outreach
San Francisco, 2015

5. infrastructure |ˈɪnfrəstrʌktʃə|
noun
the basic physical and organizational
structures and facilities (e.g. buildings,
roads, power supplies) needed for the
operation of a society or enterprise. the
social and economic infrastructure of a
country.
Oxford Dictionary of English

10. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1315-5960
October 5, 2012

12. February 2007 - “Author DOI” meeting
November 2007 - “CrossReg” paper
March 2009 - Contributor ID Principles
November 2007 - “Contributor ID”
February 2009 - Contributor ID Interview
(demo!)
(principles)
(NSF grant)

13. http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/050514/fred-is-taken.gif

21. 2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Conception to Launch

22. y1 y2 y3 y4 y….
infrastructure adoption timeline
integration early adopters early majority late minority laggards

25. BA

26. BA
BA

28. enterprise
federated
distributed
user-centric
lightweight
framework
fabric
web-scale
event-driven
open

31. "Framework," "fabric," "harmonise,"
"distributed," "interoperability"- are all words of
equivocation & prevarication. They are
presented as mechanisms to ensure robustness
and to distribute risk, but they are usually code-
words used to disguise and provide a polite
veneer to struggle over control of resources and
money.

35. trust

36. March, 2009

37. November, 2010

38. coverage

39. transcends
disciplines
geography
institutions
stakeholders

40. governance

41. stakeholder governed

42. non-discriminatory
membership

43. transparent operations
within constraints of privacy laws

44. can not lobby

45. living will

46. formal incentives to
fulfil mission & wind-down

47. sustainability

48. time limited funds are used
only for time limited activities

49. goal to generate surplus

50. goal to create contingency
fund to support operations for
12 months.

51. revenue based on services,
not on data

52. revenue generation should be
consistent with the mission

53. insurance

54. open source

55. open data
within constraints of privacy laws

56. available data
within constraints of privacy laws

57. patent non-assertion

58. coverage
governance
sustainability
insurance

61. Thank You

63. gbilder@crossref.org
Thank You
@gbilder