Melissa Haendel, Brian Lowe, & Violeta Ilik

VIVO 2014 Austin, TX

August 8, 2014

The Case for Stable VIVO URIs

INSTITUTION

PUBLISH

CONSULT

EXPERIMENT

FUND

DEPOSIT

The problem

•Each system creates identifiers for each author and co-author •Need to link and disambiguate researchers across institutions •Need to preserve institutional authority over scholarly contributions •VIAF and LCNAF collate scholar’s identifiers from many places •Not all authors have ORCID or other unique identifier

Need to link people

How many scholarly works has Michael Conlon published?

Who has expertise in bioinformatics and evolutionary biology in the southeast?

How can we identify external advisors for an interdisciplinary training program?

Which research topics lack funding in our consortium?

TITLE: “VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery”

…It isn’t him!

We can use VIVO Profiles to relate

people to their works

Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PPC)

Task Group on the creation and Function of

Name Authorities in a Non-MARC

Environment

Relate external named entity identifiers and information to library authority data and bibliographic data

Structure library authority data for use in linked data environment and library systems

GOALS:

OCLC: Registering Researchers in Authority Files

10 types of scholarly systems

Authority hubs Current Research Information System (CRIS) Identifier hubs National research portal Online encyclopedia

Reference management Research and collaboration hub

Researcher profile systems Subject author identifier system

Subject repository

OCLC: Draft Registering Researchers in Authority Files report (dated 2014-03-28)

Examples

Why we need persistent identifiers

across systems

Different systems have different data that can be

utilized across sources

Multiple names/transliteration

Change of names

Pseudonyms - privacy issues!!!

Challenges in linking records

An example resource addressing

similar issues in science

Resolvable identifiers Location independent Free to use

Granularity of identifiers Customizable behaviors RDF support Community driven

Curated resource

Reliable

Unrestricted scope

Identifiers and Profiles in

bibliographic records – new

developments

Plug in ORCiD identifier and any other identifier (ISNI, VIAF) in Name Authority Records in 024 field with delimiter |2 qualifier value of orcid, isni, viaf …

Example on Eric Childress NAR: http://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2005-43559.html

Eric Childress in LC NAF:

But no VIVO URI?

http://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2005-43559.html

VIVO and ORCID Example: Michael Conlon

VIVO URI: http://vivo.ufl.edu/individual/n25562

and

ORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-8447

VIVO URI identifies person but also returns linked data published

by the University of Florida.

ORCID controlled by individual.

We need both.

Distributed Person Data

Former Institution

VIVO URI

Current Institution

VIVO URI

Future Institution

VIVO URI

sameAs link

sameAs link

sameAs link

Distributed Person Data

Each institution publishes authoritative data about

researcher's activities during a given time period.

URIs for VIVOs that commit to maintaining the

historical data should be registered for ongoing

discoverability.

Each VIVO records ORCID iD to aid in sameAs

linking.

Creating stable VIVO URIs

Institution A Institution B

ID:123

http://vivo.institutionA.edu/

individual/n64866

http://vivo.institutionB.edu/

individual/n88764

http://vivo.institutionA.edu/

individual/n45891

Mary Jane

Co-authorship

Joe Shmo Joe Shmo

Goal:

Registering VIVO URIs with OCLC PURL server?

Making vivoweb.org/ontology URIs persistent

Ontology URI already HTTP redirect Locally hosted VIVO profiles (the persistence

of these will depend on the same guidelines as for the ontology, except at a local level)

VIVO hub (vivoweb.org? OCLC? ORCID?)

Creating stable VIVO URIs

Conclusions

To support maximal data integration across

sites and platforms, we need to support:

Persistence of VIVO person URIs

Management of sameAs assertions for

person instances across platforms

Registration of VIVO person URIs in VIAF

Thank you