persistent identifiers - the 5 things you need to know
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5 things you need to know about Persistent IDs
Wednesday, 19th October 2016
1pm Hot Spot StageN99 Hall 4.2
Who are Ringgold?
Ringgold’s Mission
to provide organizational identifiers and structured data to facilitate information exchange
throughout the scholarly research community
...and beyond.
5 things you need to know about persistent identifiers1. What is a persistent identifier?2. Why do you need them?3. How do identifiers manage change?4. What are the benefits of using identifiers?5. How do identifiers generate value and
utility?
You may have heard of PIDs, or persistent IDs but what are they?
UNIQUE PERSISTENT MEANINGLESS
• Abundance of identifiers• Open or proprietary• Not names, not locations, not classifications
What are they for?Disambiguation: • 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)
Deduplication:• University of Tokyo• Tokyo University• Tokyo Daigaku• ToDai• Université de Tokyo• UT
• Jane J Smith• Smith, J• Dr. J. Smith• Prof. Jane J. Smith
Persistent Identifiers
AuthorFunder
Peer Review System
Publisher
Tech Partner
Subs Agent
Sales AgentFulfilment
Institute
Consortia
Data Provider
Authent-ication
End User
Linking data
Managing change
People change names, have various names, aliases, changing titles
Organisations merge, split, are acquired, cease, change characteristics, move location
Content has various versions, print, online, pieces of content within larger thing, attached data sets, dynamic content
So what can I get out of them?
• Master data management• Save money• Improve growth, performance• Integrate systems, workflows
and knowledge • Improve customer and end
user experience• Trust in data
PIDs for Institutionswith linked metadata & hierarchical
records
Comprehensive authority file for scholarly communications
• Global, multi-sector coverage• More than 440K institutional
records to date• Extensible: grows to meet the
needs of those who have adopted it• Built by data experts: each entry
independently researched and created by our team• Governed & maintained
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
SizeTier
Subject Sector
+ MoreLocation
PIDs in ActionExamples from Publishers & Intermediaries
Managing & Connecting Internal Data
Challenge: Multiple systems lacked uniformity and held duplicate records, negatively impacting the business. Required a common language & interoperability between multiple systems.
Solution: Ringgold ID embedded into subscriber data, and author affiliations (via Aries Editorial Manager)
Results• Increased efficiency•Database & report
accuracy•Free up customer
service• Improved data for Marketing & Sales
SCHOLARONE MANUSCRIPTSUsing PIDs to join the research cycle
Author selects affiliation for self & co-authors in S1M
Ringgold ID for each affiliated institution is embedded
Exports of mss
metadata
Inst data standardized
w/in S1 systems
Publishers’ systems
CCC RightsLink for Open Access
Thank youFeel free to visit us on Stand M86 for more information.www.ringgold.com