Oh, you’re that Cameron Neylon: why effective identity management is critical to the development...
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Oh, you’re that Cameron Neylon
Why effective identity management is critical to the development of open research
Oh, you’re that Cameron Neylon
Why effective identity management is critical to the development of open researchfuture
Who am I?
friendfeed.com/cameronneylon
twitter.com/cameronneylon
blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen
openwetware.org/wiki/User:Cameron_Neylon
slideshare.net/cameronneylon
viddler.com/cameronneylon
I am all these different people to different
people at different times
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolomazzoleni/436307747 CC-BY
It matters to me...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdunnette/167010858 CC-BY-SA
...credit for what I’ve done
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gail/309568668 CC-BY
...it matters to him...
...there are things you don’t want to be associated with...
...what if you’re this guy (or one of his friends) and want to work
in vaccine research...?
...funders want more information on outputs
More measurementhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/redjar/136165399 CC-BY-SA
Greater diversity of outputs
...serious consequences
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erix/27946743 CC-BY
...and we’re spending £12B of the taxpayer’s money
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2143212474 CC-BY
...it might be nice to get this right
...it might be nice to get this right(ish)
...but that’s all a bit negativehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bensonkua/3165739586 CC-BY-SA
what about a positive view?http://www.flickr.com/photos/29412527@N04/3393371408 CC-BY
...if I want to see more open data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/2704017177 CC-BY-SA
...a more diverse research community
http://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/22800371 CC-BY
...if I want people to agree to referee requests...
...then they need to be recognised and rewarded
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmjas/68005012 CC-BY-SA
Rewards can be big...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/natematias/310642831 CC-BY-SA
...or small...
...but need to be recognised
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2941559903 CC-BY
...trusted
...and unambiguously linked to one person
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frielp/2661943 CC-BY
In today’s world with its diverse outputs and metrics any
assessment that cannot be independently and automatically
replicated is not credible.
For usability, transparency, and reliability, we need a clear researcher id
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_dietrich/2402860858 CC-BY
So what should it look like?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37868257@N05/3546402630 CC-BY
A token, not an authentication mechanism
For researchers, by researchers
The property of the individual, not controlled by a commercial group
...or their institution
Any centralised authority must represent all the stakeholders not just entrenched interests.
Future proof, portable, and native to the open
data web.
Wetrustpeople...
...notobjects
A semantic social web of objects (and data, and process and...)
(Someof)thepeopleItrust...
...indifferentwaysandfordifferentthings
No single metric will work for every person or purpose...
...but with robust identity tokens we can build metrics
for the purpose at hand
We can build a reward structure that supports a more diverse and open research community.
But more importantly
We can build and manage the trust networks that will let us navigate an open web of data.