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Barbara Bazzanella, Paolo Bouquet , Martin Dow, Ruben Riestra

Digital Object Identifiers and Unique Authors Identifiers to enable services for data quality assessment, provenance, access. http://www.digoiduna.eu/. Barbara Bazzanella, Paolo Bouquet , Martin Dow, Ruben Riestra. SMART 2010/0054 Contract N. 30-CE-0395470/00-32.

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Barbara Bazzanella, Paolo Bouquet , Martin Dow, Ruben Riestra

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  1. Digital Object Identifiers andUnique Authors Identifiersto enable services for data quality assessment, provenance, access http://www.digoiduna.eu/ Barbara Bazzanella, Paolo Bouquet, Martin Dow, Ruben Riestra SMART 2010/0054 Contract N. 30-CE-0395470/00-32

  2. Objectives of the DIGOIDUNA study • Supporting policy makers at European and member state level to understand the opportunities and challenges of adopting solutions for managing identifiers in the context of establishing scientific data e-infrastructures (SDIs) • Providing instruments that will support decision making on solutions that will have a long-lasting impact on scientific research and on the long term access, preservation and integration of valuable data and knowledge assets

  3. The three key messages Digital identifiers are at the root of extracting value of information resources within SDIs. The key challenge for managing identifiers goes far beyond the technical level to embrace a much wider vision, where organizational, social and business strategies form an intertwined eco-system. Action is needed to exploit the opportunities provided by a coordinated eco-system of identifiers in e-Science

  4. e-Science infrastructures in the digital agenda for Europe • Building a pan-European and worldwide network of research infrastructures to increase the potential of innovation and the advancement of the research • Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of European research and reinforcing the research community How to deliver the benefits of the digital era to e-Science?

  5. Identifiers: creating value from data • DIs are an essential building block for enabling effective and efficient technical solutions and for supporting the creation of value-added services like: • Data and information Access, Search and Navigation • Fast, large-scale and decentralized Data Sharing & Reuse • Effective Linkage of data and information across repositories • Fine-grained Access Control • Data and information Quality assessment • Reputation assessment & Citation indexes • Impact and ROI assessment (reliable research outputs beyond the scope of published literature) • Ownership management for data and scholarly content (citability) • … • on top of scientific data and contents

  6. From local-non digital to global-digital

  7. The new fundamental challenge Digital Identifiers (DIs) are the keys for cost-effective data management in digital systems • But what if we need to deal with data & information created and managed across • national • organizational • disciplinary • cultural • Technological…. • boundaries? Enabling a cross-boundary key to data

  8. A multi-dimensional vision

  9. The opportunities ahead Actions needed to fill the gap The current situation Future e-Science scenarios SWOT analysis

  10. THE STARTING POINT

  11. The current situation - I • FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT: managing identifiers is an essential component for data management in SDIs and a key to produce (more) value from data.

  12. The current situation - II • FRAGMENTATION  CONVERGENCE: despite the current fragmentation of solutions, it is clear that the main stakeholders are in fact converging toward a restricted number of systems and initiatives for managing persistent identifiers on top of which value-added services are being built (for example, DataCite or CrossRef) • [See below: the PIs / Cool URIs debate]

  13. DIs for Digital Objects Source: elaboration from APARSEN questionnaire (2011)

  14. DIs for Authors Source: elaboration from APARSEN questionnaire (2011)

  15. The current situation - III • There is a different level of maturity between more consolidated solutions for digital objects and the gradually emerging solutions for authors (e.g.ResearcherID, ScopusID, the ORCID initiative).

  16. The current situation - IV • There is a clear indication that trusted institutions should support the definition of agreements between the relevant stakeholders and users, especially when there are potentially conflicting interests • Trust is a key requirement towards a solution (trusted authorities, sustainability & long-term preservation, data quality, explicit policies & governance models, etc.)

  17. Linked Open Data: Cool URIs as Persistent Identifiers for e-Science? • May the Web itself be taken as the platform for e-Science and the current practices about HTTP URIs as a way of managing persistent identifiers? • The Web of Data and the Cool URIs solution

  18. PIs / Cool URIs: the debate

  19. The “Den Hague Manifesto”:towards interesting synergies Cool URIs PIs owl:sameAs relations for linking PIs PIs as resource IDs in RDF triples Persistent Object Identifiers Seminar The Hague, The Netherlands, 14 - 15 June 2011

  20. Future looking scenarios Where do we want to go?

  21. Example I: speeding up data sharing & reuse Authorship and intellectual property Citability before publication Dataset ID Genomic data Research collaboration and collective benefit Source: interview with Jan Brase (Datacite.org)

  22. Example II: building the network of e-Science Scientific publications Biographical information Research collaborations & projects Related / subsidiary info on the web DI for Author Citation metrics Papers on the same research topic Related institutions Rich measures and impact assessment

  23. SWOT analysis DIAGNOSING the GAP

  24. A SWOT ANALYSIS S W • Europe has been already investing in the creation of e-infrastructures • The necessary know-how is available • Success of pioneering efforts in restricted contexts • Ultimate consensus and coordination among stakeholders • Lack of clear business & sustainability models • Scarce awareness beyond (and even within) direct players • Political priorities • Institutional consensus / different agendas • Resistance to change in scientific communities • Consolidation of e-Science • Demand for Science based innovation • Expectations for “ROI” of public interventions • Technical solutions are available and relatively mature O T

  25. Possible strategies to fill the gap • Bottom-up agreement • Time • Failure? • Risk of fragmentation • Reuse of available systems • Lack of adoption • Lack of backward compatibility • A priori interoperability • Costs and resources • Locking out pre-existing solutions • Low acceptance • Stakeholders agreement • Interoperability • Acceptance • Trust • Time?

  26. Supporting coordination: the main actions

  27. Define the DIs agenda The EC should start initiatives aiming at defining a common agenda among key stakeholders towards the design and implementation of a governance model and an integrating infrastructure for managing DIs in SDIs in which technological, economical, social and political factors are taken into account.

  28. Define the DIs agenda • Defining the common objectives and organize them into a list of workable temporal priorities. • Agreeing on a shared governance model, which defines devolved responsibilities amongst stakeholders and ensures long-term sustainability. • Sharing a conceptual framework in which the basic technical parameters and the fundamental services are introduced and described. • Planning interventions to promote awareness, dissemination and education activities aiming at expanding and reinforcing DI knowledge and skills.

  29. Bootstrapping DIs in SDIs The EC, Member States and other relevant stakeholders must take specific actions aiming at bootstrapping the implementation of the DI agenda in order to secure a critical mass of coordinated DI systems.

  30. Bootstrapping DIs in SDIs • Reinforce, promote and secure EU wide institutional coordination among vertical and regional clusters of e-infrastructure stakeholders (common policies on the governance of identifiers for digital objects and authors). • Funding bodies must provide initial support to seed initiatives, which aim at implementing the coordination model defined in the agenda and at creating a critical mass of coordinated DI systems. This must be done in a flexible way, which allows the reallocation of funds in the portfolio based on the emerging needs and requirements. • Promote awareness and skills development to enable different stakeholders to participate effectively on DI initiatives and infrastructures. • Work towards systematic implementation of technical and organisational factors that underpin trust in identifiers, their reliability as a key component of SDIs - secure their operational management.

  31. Mobilizing resources Stakeholders at any levels should promote actions to mobilize technical, human, financial resources aiming at triggering a wider demand of usage and exploitation of e-Science results based on DIs.

  32. Mobilizing resources Funding agencies should design funding schemes, which may attract new public and private investments and efforts in developing and adopting DI-based added value services and solutions. Stakeholders, and especially funding agencies, should foster interoperability based on consolidation of established DI systems (where possible) more than on proliferation of ad hoc systems. Actions should be taken to mobilize consolidated technical skills to implement effective digital identifiers infrastructures (DIIs) within SDIs and adopt measures to assess the quality and impact of them for the exploitation of e-Science results.

  33. Sustainable solutions Efforts should be invested to build suitable organisational mechanisms and business models to guarantee the-long term sustainability of DI solutions.

  34. Sustainable solutions Stakeholders need to develop business models where the costs of developing and sustaining identifier infrastructures and the responsibility in granting the long term sustainability of these infrastructures are distributed among the beneficiaries. The flexibility of funding sources should be enhanced, allowing the reallocation of funds in the portfolio to enable the rapid scaling of promising solutions that embed or promote the value (usage) of identifiers. Funding bodies must support the development of collaborative models and actions to create synergies and exchange opportunities between the private/commercial sector and scientific sector -DI- PPP).

  35. THE DIGOIDUNA TEAM Thank you! Paolo Barbara Martin Ruben Contact: info@digoiduna.eu

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