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Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications - Christine Orr at SSP 2016
Ringgold is a for-profit database publisher founded in 2003 to provide persistent identifiers (PIDs) that disambiguate institutional subscribers to scholarly publications. The Ringgold ID is widely accepted by major academic publishers and organizations, allowing for effective identification of diverse institutions involved in scholarly communications. The system is designed to be sustainable, maintainable, and extensible, while supporting complex institutional hierarchies and relationships.
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- 1. Persistent Identifiers inScholarly Communications Society for Scholarly Publishing 2 June 2016 Christine Orr
- 2. INSTITUTIONAL IDENTIFIERS: One pieceof the new infrastructure
- 3. Who (or what)is Ringgold? • Ringgold is a small, for-profit, database publisher • 2003: Identify Database & the Ringgold ID are born out of a project to disambiguate the institutional subscribers to OUP journals • This was not a unique problem • Over the past decade, Ringgold has met the requirements necessary to create a trusted PID to identify institutions. • Sustainability - has to be there • Currency - must be maintained • Governance - rules matter • Extensible - ability to add new records People PlacesThings
- 4. Is the RinggoldID a standard? Not an ISO standard….but: Interoperable with and mapped to standards & IDs (ISNI, IPEDs, etc.) Widely accepted: 24 of the top 25 academic publishers plus intermediaries, NGOs, and governments - more than 70 organizations in our space - have implemented the Ringgold ID. • Copyright Clearance Center • ScholarOne Manuscripts • ORCID • Elsevier • Taylor & Francis • OUP • AAAS/Science • Wolters Kluwer • Royal Society of Chemistry • Kudos • IET • NEJM/Massachusetts Medical Soc • Portuguese govt: Foundation for Science and Technology • Aries Editorial Manager • ProQuest • PLoS • Am Chemical Society • Am Psychological Assn • SAO/NASA Astrophysical Data System
- 5. Institutions Play MultipleRoles Affiliations of Individuals: • Authors • Editors • Reviewers • Past & present • Educational • Employment • Volunteer Functions in Scholarly Comms: • Licensee • Funder of research • Publisher • Payer of APC • Member institutions • Intermediaries • Operator of CRIS systems
- 6. Identifying Institutions: Howhard can it be? • Hierarchies: Subsidiary components & complex relationships …also • Who is responsible for the entity’s record? • There are different types which are crucial to understanding them • There are more of them than first meets the eye
- 7. 420K institutions inscholarly communications • Global, multi-sector coverage • Extensible: grows to meet the needs of those who have adopted it • Built by hand • Governed & maintained
- 8. Identify: Three KeyFeatures Metadata Hierarchies Ringgold 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 Alvarado 33177 UCLA: Universidad Contemporanea de las Americas 376277 SizeTier Subject Sector + MoreLocation
- 9. The Thing Insidethe Thing Ringgold’s Mission To provide identifiers and structured data to power the efficient exchange of information throughout the scholarly research community ...and beyond.
- 10. Thank you Christine Orr SalesDirector, North America [email protected] Tel: 540.359.6620 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1362-3330 www.ringgold.com Clean Data. Confident Decisions.