Melissa HaendelProject CRediT workshop

December 10, 2014

@ontowonka

On the nature of credit

The Research Life Cycle

TECHNIQUE

COLLABORATION

PUBLICATIONDATASET

GRANT

What is the relationship of a person to a publication?

What is the relationship of a person to a publication?

Modeling relationships

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.

Credit is connected

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

Attribution comes with provenance

=> Reproducibility also enables attribution

W3C Dataset Description standard

https://github.com/joejimbo/HCLSDatasetDescriptions

Others have been here before

http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ https://github.com/vivo-isf

A little VIVO-ISF History

eagle-i is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting and searching research resources.

VIVO is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting anddisplaying 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

eagle-i

Resources

VIVO

People

Coordination

eagle-iVIVO

Semantic

Clinical activities

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

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

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/vivo-isf

Acknowledgements

Shahim Essaid

Matt Brush

Jon Corson-Rikert