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VIVO-ORCID collaborative development, project proposal to UFL
Submitted by Gudmundur Thorisson on January 10, 2011 - 1:00am
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The VIVO platform and ORCID in the scholarly identity ecosystem
A response to the VIVO Collaborative Research Projects Program RFA1
Authors:
Gudmundur A. Thorisson <gt50@le.ac.uk>, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Geoffrey W. Bilder <gbilder@crossref.org>, CrossRef, Oxford, United Kingdom Martin Fenner <fenner.martin@mh-hannover.de>, Hannover Medical School, Germany On behalf of ORCID (http://www.orcid.org)
1. Background
The National VIVO Network is building an open source semantic web application framework that combines publicly available information on people, departments, publications, grants, teaching activities and other resources in participating scholarly institutions. VIVO content can be added manually, but is ideally brought in automatically from internal and external authoritative sources, the latter including PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science. A major challenge is the retrieval of published works associated with specific authors from participating institutions, and the automatic disambiguation of authors and scholarly works. The central goal of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID not-for-profit organization (ORCID) is to solve the long-standing name ambiguity problem in scholarly communication. Accurate attribution is a fundamental pillar of the scholarly record. Global identification infrastructure exists for content but not for the producers of that content, creating challenges in establishing the identity of authors and other contributors and reliably linking them to their published works. The core mission of ORCID is rectify this by creating a “central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes”2. This registry will be a centralized identity system for collecting and managing information describing i) contributors themselves and ii) relationships between contributors and their scholarly publications as well as various other types of scientific output. This information will be made available for non-commercial use at no charge as well as for a fee via web pages, web service APIs and bulk downloads, with any fees intended to ensure long-term financial sustainability and persistence of the system.
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http://www.vivoweb.org/blog/2010/11/rfa-announcement-vivo-collaborative-research-projectsprogram 2 http://www.orcid.org
As outlined in the ORCID Principles3 (also supplied as supplementary information with this proposal), openness is a key theme in ORCID’s strategy for data release, research control of profile data, participation (from both individual researchers and organizations) and governance. Of central concern to ORCID is integration with institutional information systems, both for the purpose of populating the central registry with researcher profile information and, vice versa, for enabling partner systems to access and make use of this information for knowledge discovery. Several key ORCID use cases focus on interactions between the central system and digital research libraries or university research support systems. VIVO is a key institutional information system for ORCID, not only because of the number of institutions involved, but also because VIVO makes information available for consumption by other web sites. VIVO will be an important source of i) key elements of a researcher profile (e.g. the person name and variants thereof, verified institutional affiliations, contact details) and ii) information about researcher contributions and activities which may not be represented in the primary scholarly record. On the other hand, ORCID i) can provide VIVO unique researcher identifiers that are valid across institutional boundaries, ii) can help in automated disambiguation of author names and iii) can provide information about scholarly publications associated with these unique researcher identifiers. Given that a key aim of both VIVO and ORCID is the creation of an infrastructure that makes information about researchers and their scholarly works openly available, it would seem that VIVO and ORCID could both benefit from closer collaboration. Both projects already collaborate strategically, so the aim of this proposal is to foster a closer technological collaboration.
2. Project proposal
The overall aim of the proposed project is to understand how VIVO and ORCID could interact in the scholarly identity ecosystem. To this end, two main areas of work are planned. The first will focus on evaluating the VIVO project, the VIVO technology and its current/planned capabilities, with respect to the core ORCID mission and its technical requirements. Aims of this analysis include identifying overlaps and commonalities, and answering questions such as: should ORCID use/extend the VIVO ontology for semantic interoperability? Could some VIVO software components be reused/extended by ORCID? How would a researcher interact with ORCID through his/her institutional VIVO installation? The aim of the second area of planned work is for the ORCID Technical Working Group (TWG) to get hands-on experience with the VIVO software itself. This will be done by implementing several extensions to the VIVO platform to support a subset of important ORCID use cases, focusing on (but not limited to): • Search for, retrieve and ingest bibliographical information from the CrossRef system4. • Secure, OAuth-based exchange of both public and non-public researcher profile information between VIVO and an external system (specifically, a manuscript tracking system).
Taken together, the outcomes of the project will at a minimum increase ORCID’s understanding of the VIVO technology, which should lower the barrier to future integration between ORCID and the increasing number of VIVO-enabled organizations. The implemented extensions will expand the overall functionality of the VIVO platform, thus benefitting the VIVO user community. Finally, of benefit to both VIVO and
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http://www.orcid.org/principles http://www.crossref.org The VIVO platform and ORCID in the scholarly identity ecosystem 2
ORCID, this work may also pave the way for technology reuse and joint development, and more generally forge future collaboration between the two projects.
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Deliverable timeline
• End of January 2011 - preliminary report to the ORCID TWG • End of February 2011 - CrossRef integration complete and software released • End of July 2011 – profile exchange implementation complete and software released • Mid-August 2011 - presentation of results to ORCID TWG. TWG comments and discussions will subsequently be summarized and made publicly available • End of August 2011 – final report to VIVO and ORCID
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Dissemination plan
• Technical reports for VIVO and ORCID • Presentation of results at VIVO conference in August 24-26, 2011 • Open-source distribution of developed software via the VIVO SourceForge site5 • Downloadable virtual appliance with extended & ORCID-customized VIVO demonstrator
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3. Budget and personnel
Budget period: from January 15th to August 31st Directly incurred staff costs:
Name G. A. Thorisson Role on project Developer/manager Cal. months 7.5 Inst. base salary per annum $47,294 Subtotal Salary requested (75% of GAT salary for funding period) $22,169 $22,169
Travel costs:
Purpose of travel Meetings with ORCID collaborators in UK VIVO Conference August 24 to 26 , 2011
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Estimated cost $800 $1,500 $2,300
Subtotal
Total amount requested:
$24,469
Staff details: • Gudmundur A. Thorisson is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leicester and member of the ORCID TWG. Gudmundur will spend an estimated 75% of his time in the funding period undertaking the main body of development and analysis work for this project, in close collaboration with the ORCID TWG. • ORCID TWG members and other ORCID participants will contribute to the analysis work, advise on development and generally provide input as needed. • Geoff Bilder is CrossRef’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and the ORCID interim Technical Director. Geoff will co-manage the project and coordinate Gudmundur’s work with other ORCID activities. • Martin Fenner is a clinical research fellow at Hannover Medical School, member of the ORCID Board and chair of the ORCID Outreach Working Group. Martin will help coordinate Gudmundur’s work with the VIVO project.
Resources: • Data storage and other computing facilities will be provided by University of Leicester, and possibly also by other ORCID participant organizations.
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ORCID Principles
1. ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors. ORCID will transcend discipline, geographic, national and institutional, boundaries. Participation in ORCID is open to any organization that has an interest in scholarly communications. Access to ORCID services will be based on transparent and non-discriminatory terms posted on the ORCID website. Researchers will be able to create, edit, and maintain an ORCID ID and profile free of charge. Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their own ORCID profile data. All profile data contributed to ORCID by researchers or claimed by them will be available in standard formats for free download (subject to the researchers' own privacy settings) that is updated once a year and released under the CC0 waiver. All software developed by ORCID will be publicly released under an Open Source Software license approved by the Open Source Initiative. For the software it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source. ORCID identifiers and profile data (subject to privacy settings) will be made available via a combination of no charge and for a fee APIs and services. Any fees will be set to ensure the sustainability of ORCID as a not-for-profit, charitable organization focused on the long-term persistence of the ORCID system.
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10. ORCID will be governed by representatives from a broad cross-section of stakeholders, the majority of whom are not-for-profit, and will strive for maximal transparency by publicly posting summaries of all board meetings and annual financial reports.
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