1.
On the nature of credit
Melissa Haendel
Project CRediT workshop
December 10, 2014
@ontowonka

2.
TECHNIQUE
COLLABORATION
DATASET PUBLICATION
GRANT
The Research Life Cycle

3.
What is the relationship of a
person to a publication?

4.
What is the relationship of a
person to a publication?

5.
Modeling
relationships

6.
Example Scenario
 Melissa creates mouse1
 David creates mouse2
 Layne uses performs RNAseq analysis on
mouse1 and mouse2 to generate
dataset3, which he subsequently
curates and analyzes
 Layne writes publication pmid:12345
about the results of his analysis
 Layne explicitly credits Melissa as an
author but not David.

7.
Credit is connected
=> Credit to Melissa is asserted, but credit to David can be inferred

8.
Attribution comes with provenance
=> Reproducibility also enables attribution

9.
W3C Dataset Description standard
https://github.com/joejimbo/HCLSDatasetDescriptions

10.
Others have been here before
http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ https://github.com/vivo-isf

11.
A little VIVO-ISF History
eagle-i
Resources
People
VIVO
Semantic
VIVO
Coordination
eagle-i
Clinical
activities
 eagle-i is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting and
searching research resources.
 VIVO is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting and
displaying information about people.
 CTSAconnect produced a single Integrated Semantic
Framework, a modular collection of ontologies that also
includes clinical expertise
 This new research activity exchange standard is VIVO-ISF

12.
Roles can be hierarchal
 Representation of more
general or more specific
roles
 Definitions are inherited
 Role based queries enable
aggregate results
 Extensibile by end users to
address local needs
 Computable when
represented in a formal
language

13.
What kind of questions can we ask?
 Find all people who made contributions to a given
publication
 Find all publications or research entities to which a person
has contributed
 Track what types of contributions a person made during
their post-doc
 Find all persons at my institution who have contributed to
publications as a data curator or software developer
 Find all papers that used software developed by a given
person
 Find all research entities that are related to the funding of a
particular grant

14.
Contact Info
 VIVO-ISF Data Standard github issue tracker:
https://github.com/vivo-isf/vivo-isf-data-standard/
issues
 Discussion List:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vi
vo-isf

15.
Acknowledgements
Shahim Essaid
Matt Brush
Jon Corson-Rikert