Small Data, Big Benefits:You’re Sitting on a Gold Mine
SSP – Concurrent 2AJune 2 2016Christine Orr
Your data is (potentially) your most valuable asset
Knowledge
Information
Data
Ringgold: Trusted data partner & part of the scholarly comms infrastructure• Ringgold is a small, for-profit, database publisher• 2003: Identify Database & the Ringgold ID are born out of a project to
disambiguate the institutional subscribers to OUP journals• This was not a unique problem
We’ve been helping publishers turn their data into an asset for a decade with the Ringgold Identifier & data quality expertise
420,000 Institutions in scholarly communications
MetadataHierarchiesRinggold ID
Univ Calif System
UCLA
Med School Coll of L&S
UCSD
Div of Physical Sci
UCLA: Univ Calif Los Angeles8783
UCLA: Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro
Alvarado33177
UCLA: Universidad Contemporanea de las
Americas376277
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Subject Sector
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Small Data – what do we mean? • Metadata elements• Persistent IDs• Individual user records• Transactional data: usage,
payments, etc.
The big picture depends on every detail: accurate & interconnected data
What is preventing us from using our data to maximum advantage?
• Entity management: Jens-Peter Mueller or J-P. Müller? Uni Hannover or Hanover College?
• Data quality: Incomplete, outdated, duplicates, inaccurate.
• Interoperability: Systems, languages, data silos based on functions.
Who are our end users?
• Readers• Authors• Reviewers• Editors• Members• Student members• Meeting attendees• Volunteers• Faculty
Who are our Institutions?
Affiliations of Individuals:• Authors• Editors• Reviewers• Volunteer
• Funder of research• Payer of APC• Member
institutions• Licensees• Subscribers• Consortia
• Market intelligence about authors and institutions• Facility to create targeted marketing & outreach• Author and subscriber information mapped together• Knowledge of where research funding is concentrated• Reduction in time taken calculating open access charges (APCs) • Ability to resolve conflicts of interest (author & reviewer from same inst)
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Big Benefits: When individuals & affiliations are joined together, publishers gain knowledge and capabilities
What solutions exist?
Entity Management: Adopt persistent IDs as appropriate
• People: ORCID• Places: Ringgold ID, ISNI, Funder ID• Things: DOIs
Data quality • Retrospective cleanup• Improve data capture process &
eliminate free text• Disambiguate & merge duplicate
records
Interoperability• Tools & standard data for integration• Systems-dependent
ORCID + Ringgold IDs: Joining people + places
• Joining People + Places
Thank you
Christine Orr
Sales Director
www.ringgold.com
Ringgold’s Mission
To provide identifiers and structured data to power the efficient exchange of information
throughout the scholarly research community
...and beyond.
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