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ANDS and Iden+fiers: ODIP Workshop, AIMS, 7/8/2014 Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology 1 CCBY @atreloar

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Presentation on identifiers in general, and ANDS' approach to identifiers for objects and people in particular. Given at ODIP 3rd Workshop on August 7, 2014.

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ANDS  and  Iden+fiers:  ODIP  Workshop,  AIMS,  7/8/2014  

Dr  Andrew  Treloar,  Director  of  Technology  

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ANDS  Overview  §  In  existence  since  2009  §  Currently  c.  40  staff  around  Australia  (mostly  Melbourne  and  Canberra)  

§  Scope:  Research  data  (data  that  researchers  produce  and  use)  

§  Provides  training,  advocacy,  services,  policy  support  

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ANDS  enables  these  transforma+ons:  From  data  that  are:  " Uncollected  " Unmanaged  " Disconnected  " Invisible  " Single  use  

To  aggrega+ons  that  are:  " Collected  " Managed  " Connected  " Findable  " Reusable  

so  that  Australian  researchers  can  easily  publish,  discover,  access  and  use/re-­‐use  research  data.    

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ANDS  online  services  §  Research  Data  Australia  §  Cite  my  Data  DOI  Iden+fier  service  §  Vocab  crea+on/management  service  +  API  §  Research  Ac+vity  iden+fier  service  +  API  §  Developer  toolbox  

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Why  have  persistent  object  iden+fiers?  §  <conten+ous>Cool  URIs  can  in  theory  be  persistent,  but  in  prac+ce  they  are  suscep+ble  to  changes  to:  §  filename  §  path  §  domain  </conten+ous>  

§  PIDs  can  best  be  seen  as  an  indirec'on  layer  that  reduces  bri0leness  in  gecng  to  digital  objects  

§  But,  PIDs  are  not  magic  pixie  dust;  assigning  a  PID  does  not  make  the  object  persistent!  

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Some  thoughts  on  Persistence:  Is  it  §  Persistence  of  object?  

§  Or  mechanism  to  handle  its  non-­‐persistence  

§  Persistence  of  iden+fier?  §  Persistence  of  binding  between  iden+fier  and  object?  §  Persistence  of  service  to  resolve  from  iden+fier  to  object?  

§  Persistence  of  service  to  allow  for  upda+ng  of  binding  between  iden+fier  and  object?  

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ANDS:  Object  iden+fiers  §  Started  out  providing  Handles  service  §  Founda+on  members  of  DataCite  §  DOI  Business  model  updated  =>  DOI  more  airac+ve  

§  Now  Australian  DataCite  registrar  §  min+ng  over  2K/month  

§  M2M  interface  only  §  Management  responsibility  lies  with  data  holders  7/08/2014   CC-­‐BY  @atreloar   9  

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ANDS:  Person/Organisa+on  iden+fiers  §  Space  is  complex:  ORCID,  VIAF,  ISNI  §  Ini+ally,  worked  with  NLA  Trove  ID  

§  hip://nla.gov.au/nla.party-­‐513559  §  But  “market  momentum”  appears  to  be  moving  towards  ORCID  

§  ANDS  co-­‐hosted  very  successful  ORCID  Roundtable  with  CAUL  last  month  

§  Also  member  of  ORCID  Datacite  Interoperability  Network  project  

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ANDS  approach  to  Data  Publishing  §  Publishing  =  making  public  §  Collected  –  inten+onally  group  together  data  that  will  be  most  useful  in  re-­‐use  context  

§  Managed  –  store  in  sustainable  loca+on  §  Connected  –  ensure  data  is  connected  to  context  that  produced  it  

§  Findable  –  register  existence  of  data  somewhere  that  enables  its  discovery  

§  Reusable  –  ensure  data  comes  with/is  connected  to  enough  informa+on  for  someone  else  to  reuse  

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Ques+ons?  §  ands.org.au  

§  [email protected]  §  @atreloar  

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Key  differen+ators  for  ANDS  §  Na+onally  co-­‐ordinated  approach  §  Ins+tu+onally-­‐focussed  engagement  

§  “helping  them  meet  their  research  data  ambi+ons”  

§  Engaging  with  large  na+onally-­‐funded  discipline  investments  

§  Bulk  of  funds  spent  outside  ANDS  §  All  disciplines  covered  §  Focus  on  adding  value  to  data  and  re-­‐use  

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Major  programs  undertaken  (200+  projects)  §  Seeding  the  Commons  (fixing  the  past)  §  Data  Capture  (fixing  the  future)  §  Metadata  Stores  (managing  ins+tu+onal  research  data  assets)  

§  Applica+ons  (demonstra+ng  value  of  joining  data)  §  Major  Open  Data  Collec+ons  (content  focus)  §  eResearch  Infrastructure  Connec+vity  (connec+on  focus)  

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