Council of Science EditorsMay 5, 2014

What We Will Cover

1.Who is Ringgold?2.The case for institutional identifiers

What they are How they help

Smoothing the supply chain

Background and HistoryRinggold acquires Frontline GMS Ltd and Consortium Directory Online. Laura Cox joins as V.P. Sales & Marketing.

Identify reaches 200,000 records.

2011

2003

Identify database created via project with OUP.

Ringgold Inc and Ltd established.

3,500 records in Identify database.

2005

2006

Ringgold joins forces with British Library, Swets, HighWire, OUP and Rockefeller University Press in pilot project to apply identifiers to subscribing institutions in UK.

Identify database grows to 15,000 records.

Ringgold begins licensing institutional IP data from Ingenta's global access control system.

60,000 records in Identify.

2008

2009

Ringgold creates strategic partnership with DataSalon to combine Identify database with MasterVision platform.

100,000 records in Identify.

2012

Ringgold becomes first contracted ISNI Registration Agency for Institutions.

Identify database reaches 345,000 records.

Ringgold acquires Book News Inc.

What We DoScholarly Institutions.

Connected.

Identify DatabaseConsortium Directory OnlineAudit/Data normalization services

Scholarly Information. Discovered.

ProtoView: Supporting discovery, purchase, and use of scholarly content with standardized metadata

How identifiers helpProper understanding of the customer, whether author,

reader or institutionProvides a simple basis for wider data governance:

Data governance, as defined at Ringgold, is the processes, policies, standards, organization, and technologies required to manage and ensure the availability, accessibility, quality,

consistency, auditability, and security of data.

What are standard identifiers? Numeric or alpha-numeric persistent designations associated with a single entity Entities can be an institution, person, or piece of content

…and what do they do, exactly?

Disambiguate, aka enforce uniqueness

Enable linking, aka data integration

In other words, they provide a simple basis for data governance

Enforcing Uniqueness Means:Disambiguating things that have the same name, but are actually different… UCL:

University College London (UK) Université Catholique de Louvain

(Belgium) Universidad Cristiana

Latinoamericana (Ecuador) University College Lillebælt

(Denmark) Centro Universitario Celso Lisboa

(Brazil) Union County Library (USA)

NPL: National Physical Laboratory (UK) National Physical Laboratory (India)

York University University of York (UK) York University (Canada)

Northeastern University: Northeastern University (Boston,

USA) Northeastern University (Shenyang,

China)

….. And consolidating the things that have different names but are actually the same

University of OxfordUniv. OxfordOxford UniversityLibrary, Oxford Univ.Radcliffe Science LibraryBodleian LibraryBodleian, OxfordOxford, University of

University of Northampton Northampton Business School School of Education School of Health School of Science and Technology

Division of Computing Division of Engineering Environmental & Geographical Sciences Institute for Creative Leather

Technologies School of Social Sciences School of The Arts

Why is disambiguation important?Uniquely identify institutions within recordsEradicate duplication of dataEnsure correct delivery, entitlements, access rights, feesBetter understand your customer base and relationships with

institutionsMap institutions into their hierarchy or “family tree”

So that you can trust your data

Data integration, or linkingIdentifiers are a single data element that provides an unambiguous “hook” into a record

What can you do with linked data?Using Institutional

Identifiers to link internal systems:Break down silos Keep data up-to-date and

systems synchronisedEnable staff to use data

more effectivelySimplify data transmissionImprove overall data quality

Linking author and institution IDsWhen authors and their affiliations are linked correctly, publishers

gain:Market intelligence about authors and institutionsAuthor and subscriber information mapped togetherKnowledge of where research funding is concentratedReduction in time taken calculating open access charges (APCs)

Institutions gain information about their overall research outputFunders gain information about where authors reside and publishReaders benefit from improved search and discovery

The supply chain

Consortium

AuthorSubmission

and Peer Review System

Publisher

Technology Partner

Subscription Agent or

Sales Agent

Fulfilment House or System

Library

Discovery ServiceWSDs

End User

Data Syndication

Targets

Consortium

Societies

FundersCitation

The supply chain

Consortium

Submission and Peer Review System

Technology Partner

Subscription Agent or

Sales Agent

Fulfilment House or System

End User

Consortium

Societies

FundersCitation

The supply chain using identifiers

Consortium

The supply chain using identifiers

Consortium

The supply chain using identifiers

Consortium

A Final Thought

Free text is the death of good data

Jay HenryChief Marketing OfficerJay.henry@ringgold.com503.421.1314

ProtoView: Jean BrodahlPublisher Relations - ProtoViewJean.brodahl@ringgold.comTel: 503.239.7540

Identify: Christine OrrNorth American Sales Directorchristine.orr@ringgold.com Tel: 540.359.6620

www.ringgold.com