RDA UK and FREYA workshop – Jisc and PIDs

1. RDA UK and FREYA workshop – Jisc and PIDs rd-alliance.org

2. Jisc role and services Research analytics Dashboards etc 3rd party/open data Integration platform Jisc data HESA data University data Open research hub Research tools Reporting tools Integration platform OA repository Data repository Preservation rd-alliance.org

3. Research – our understanding Vision • “Research 4.0”: convergence of ubiquitous networks, big data, machine learning, IoT, robotics… will affect research, its organisation, and its relation with wider economy and society Validation and engagement • Consultation and engagement with institutional leaders, professional support staff, researchers, funders… Services • Research information and analytics • FAIR and open scholarship • Authentication and access • Network and cybersecurity • Cloud / data infrastructure Sector priorities Jisc approach Financial sustainability – reducing costs, attracting investment, diversifying revenue to increase resilience Expertise needed / developed by sector (‘talent pipeline’) – skills and CPD, effect of digital on EDI, mobility across sectors / internationally, team research, positive research culture, and public engagement to inspire future researchers Performance – enabling excellent, cutting edge, pure and applied research and innovation that fully exploits the potential of digital technologies Integrity and ethics – making sure digital research is ethical (responsible research and innovation), has integrity (eg reproducibility), transparency (open research) and security (AAAI and cybersecurity) Knowledge exchange – digital technologies enabling research and innovation collaboration with business, civil society, culture, policy and society, etc, across all parts of the UK / regions. International – digital technologies enabling collaboration, providing a research environment that encourages investment and staff mobility, and that benefit from compatible regulation in the context of Brexit Organisational strategies – that support data-intensive research, and that themselves are data-informed, using indicators responsibly, being aware of the incentives they can create rd-alliance.org

4. Research strategy and projects • Research 4.0 – matching our commitment to Education 4.0 • EOSC – involvement in key aspects of new entity • REF Prediction Market Tool – the best research papers for the REF • Open Research Hub – full launch and expansion in to open access resources • Research Analytic Service – define problems and refine solutions • Reproducibility – Analytics Lab theme and stakeholder in UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) rd-alliance.org

5. ORCID • Jisc Consortium and Members (95) • Jisc Support Team http://ukorcidsupport.jisc.ac.uk/ • Service management • Coordination with wider activities • Communications and events planning • Legal, policy and security advice • Help desk infrastructure • Technical coordination/input • 200k records with ac.uk email address on ORCID Record at end 2018 • Adam Tickell Open Access to Research report – government's recommendation for PIDs: • “Jisc to lead on selecting and promoting a range of unique identifiers, including ORCID, in collaboration with sector leaders with relevant partner organisations. Funders of research to consider mandating the use of an agreed range of unique identifiers as a condition of grant” rd-alliance.org

6. Mapping the PID landscape • An initiative between Jisc, SURF, DANS, ORCID and ARDC to discuss and address key challenges of PIDs in research, including: • Building trust in an environment where PID systems continue to proliferate • Embedding the use of PIDs in research workflows and harnessing the power of connecting PIDs • Increasing the adoption of PIDs by researchers and research organisations through a streamlined and internationally coordinated approach to communication • Community input via workshops • Participating in RDA activities • PID Vision - https://orcid.org/blog/2018/06/07/mapping-pid-landscape • Nature article - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05456-8 rd-alliance.org

7. PID workflow rd-alliance.org

8. FAIR PID Principles (ORCID) Open markets / avoiding vendor lock-in • Openness: including community-led advisory or governance structure • Long-term persistence guarantees: addressing long term availability of data and tools and APIs including resolution of the identifier • Sustainable business model: in which existing stakeholders can efficiently participate • Organisational agency: including choices for organisations to manage their identifier record rd-alliance.org

9. Organisation Identifiers • Jisc/CASRAI working group recommendations • Involved in OrgId registry working groups • Any registry must address the following concerns: • Sustainability, efficiency, community support, governance, openness, interoperable • A solution will only be adopted when key stakeholders have been persuaded to adopt it and integrate it with their existing systems • Establishing the benefits are key to selling any solution, but to achieve a consensus requires community engagement • British Library - ISNI registration agency • Engaged with BL and UKRI (RCUK) during pilot project on adoption of ISNIs • Setting up an ISNI OrgID advisory group for the ISNI Organisation Registry • Research Organisation Registry (ROR) - https://www.ror.community/ • Four organisations in steering group – CDL, DateCite, Digital Science and Crossref • Set up a community advisory group rd-alliance.org

10. RAiD (Research Activity ID) • Identifier for research projects and activities https://www.raid.org.au/ • Researchers move, institutions change, but projects remain • Persistent and connects researchers, institutions, outputs and tools together to give oversight across the whole research activity and make reporting and data provenance clear and easy • RAiDcan be integrated into tools that deal with all aspects of project tracking: • RAP – RedBook integration for institutional project tracking • DMPOnlinetool – RAiD issued on completion of plan • Jupyter– RAiD can be used to tag project in e-lab/Notebooks • Push open metadata to ORCID records • Looking at how Jisc could help to scale this internationally, particularly in the UK rd-alliance.org

11. equipment.data Equipment sharing made easy • Live service https://equipment.data.ac.uk/ • National portal that automatically discovers, harvests and aggregates data about institutional facilities and equipment across the UK • Searchable database of equipment/facilities (17,093 pieces of kit) in your own or another institution • Created at University of Southampton and taken over by Jisc late 2016 • 56 UK research institutions represented • Case studies on the project’s blog - https://equipment.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ • Talking to UKRI about potential for the project to be escalated into a mandated service across the board – it already is for EPSRC large capital equipment • Adding some reporting functionality to track whether users actually follow the links to the kit that are provided when they search • Currently considering where in the workflow (for researchers of finding/ funding equipment) we can add value • We want to enhance the service so that we get more users (actual researchers / research support staff who can find and make use of equipment elsewhere) achieving efficiencies in the research process • Get evidence for utilisation of the service and equipment sharing generally. • It is difficult to get people to agree on how to record use • Funders could chase who uses the equipment funded in grant though use of identifiers • Persistent Identifier for facilities and instruments is an area being looked into by the Photon and Neutron science community in the Research Data Alliance (User Facilities and Publications Working Group and Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community IG) rd-alliance.org

12. PID Communities • RDA • Brings multiple, international communities together – PID, EOSC, OpenAIRE, FREYA, etc • PID Groups • PID IG • PID Information Types WG • PID Kernel Information WG • Open Science Graphs for FAIR Data IG • Plenary meetings • P14 Helsinki • PIDapalooza • Reykjavik, Nov 2016 • Girona, Jan 2018 • Dublin, Jan 2019 • Lisbon, Jan 2020 rd-alliance.org

13. Thank you Christopher Brown 15 Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1BW Tel: 07891 501177 Twitter: @chriscb christopher.brown@jisc.ac.uk www.jisc.ac.uk rd-alliance.org