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Hello, everyone and welcome to the communicating the value of PDS and metadata. What's in it for me. What's in it for you. NISO Plus session. I'm Carolina Tanigushi and I work at the SciELO Program and I'll be your moderator for the session where we mean to understand the lineage, usage, and value propositions for investing in better, more robust and interoperable metadata.
How to address the needs of different stakeholders for new metadata schemes, and establish a narrative for cross stakeholder value propositions such as publishers, librarians, researchers, funders, policymakers, et cetera, and ask ourselves if metadata should be considered a product with associated stuff and how to go about that. Speaking today, we have Matthias Liffers, the Research Data Specialist at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
Who will be talking about the value of PIDs. Next, we have Antonia Schrader, Open Science Officer at the Helmholtz Association. Who'll be speaking about the case of ORCID in Germany. Then we have Owen Iyoha, CEO of the EKO-Konnect Research and Education Initiative. Who will be talking about the Libsense Infrastructure working group, of which he is the co-chair. And last but not least, Gabriela Mejias, Community Manager of DataCite who will be speaking about the valuesof PIDs in EOSC, the European Open Science Cloud.
OK, so first we have Matthias. Hi, my name is Matthias. I'm from the Australian Research Data Commons and I'm delighted to be talking to you today about the value of PIDs. I would like to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work. The Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation.
I pay my respects to the elders past, present, and emerging and extend that respect to any first nations people in this session. I would also like to thank the conference and session organizers for the opportunity to speak to you today. Before I get into the value of PIDs. I'd like to give you a little bit of background on the Australian Research data Commons. Its purpose is to provide Australian researchers with competitive advantage through data.
We accelerate research and innovation by driving excellence in the creation and analysis and retention of high quality data assets. Pictured here is the current ARDC strategy. We operate a range of programs and services over four portfolios. The two main portfolios are platforms and software and data and services. Our storage and compute and people and policy portfolios support the work that the two main portfolios undertake.
For the last two years, we have been running a range of open calls that give us a unique insight into the digital research infrastructure needs of the Australian research and innovation community and have influenced our priorities. Money talks, and it has since before the start of recorded history. When communicating the value of something. One of the most straightforward ways of communicating that value to others is by distilling it to a monetary value.
Inspired by a report commissioned by JISC in early 2021, the Australian Research Data Commons worked with MoreBrains Co-operative to distill the value of PIDs and their metadata to the Australian Research sector through consultation investigation and a lot of number crunching. More brains was able to determine that Australia spends 24 million Australian dollars a year. That's around 15 and a half million euro.
to re-enter metadata on publications, grants, people, projects and organizations. That is to say the Australian research sector could save $24 million each year by adopting the five PIDs that cover these five concepts in the research ecosystem. Based on work on the value of research investment by CSIRO Australia's National Research agency, that $24 million would generate $84 million of benefits to the Australian economy if it were to be invested into research rather than into data entry.
And remember, this is per year. What are the five priority PIDs? Well, I guess it's actually four PIDs for five concepts due to the versatility of DOIs. We have ORCIDs for people, RORs for organizations, RAiD for research projects, research activities, DOIs for research outputs and DOIs for grants. Many of you may already be familiar with these persistent identifiers.
If not, I heartily encourage you to learn more about them. I'm afraid I don't have time to go into all of the report's findings, as I'd rather spend time in discussion with you during the Q&A. If you would like to read the full report. It's freely available to download. I'll leave this slide up for a few moments. So you can get your phone out and scan the QR code. Hopefully I'll also remember to post the DIY into the chat if I don't feel free to gently remind me.
So now we have this marvellous report that outlines how much PIDs are worth to Australia. What's next? Well, the ARDC is bringing together all the stakeholder groups and facilitating the collaborative creation of a national PID strategy and roadmap. This strategy and roadmap will outline how Australia's research and innovation sector can realize the benefits of PIDs and their metadata.
In fact, we'll be conducting a hybrid workshop next week on Monday to get started on this work. If you work in the Australian research and innovation sector and would like to take part, please let me know and I'll send you the registration details. That's all I'm going to cover during this presentation, but please connect with us. The ARDC has a newsletter with the latest digital research, news events, resources, career opportunities and more.
You can also seek our advice on national digital research and data questions. I'm looking forward to talking to you during the Q&A. If you have any questions that we don't get the opportunity to address during that session, I invite you to contact me directly by email or Mastodon. Thank you. thank you, Matthias.
And now we have Antonia. Please, could you share your screen? OK hi, everyone. Thank you for having me today. My name is Antonia Schrader, and I'm working for the Helmholtz Open Science Office of the Helmholtz Association, which is one of the large research organizations in Germany.
Today, I want to tell you the story of the project. ORCID DE and I can proudly say that it is a project driven success story. I'd like to share the experiences my project colleagues and I made during the two funding phases from 2016 until the end of 2022, and give you an outlook on what we are working on next. So let's start at the very first beginning. As the dissemination of the research journals began to move online in the mid 1990s, it became clear that to fullfil the promise of a robust, inclusive web of scholarly communications, there needed to be two things a unique person identifier system for published works and another such system for the people creating those works.
The initial focus was on the works identifier, resulting in the introduction of the Digital Object Identifier in 1997. But by 2009, the momentum had shifted to create a contributor identifier, which led to the incorporation of the non-profit open research and contributor ID ORCID and the launch of the ORCID service in 2012. Since these days, ORCID has been established as the leading organization for providing a persistent digital identifier, the ORCID ID that researchers own and control, and that distinguishes every other researcher worldwide.
In June 2015 ORCID recorded more than 7 million works by around 1.4 million people. But the high number of registered users should not hide the fact that the implementation of the standard ORCID and scientific institutions in Germany have hardly taken place until the start of the project ORCID DE. At that time, the Helmholtz center at Jülich was the only scientific institution in Germany that was an ORCID member and worked on the integration of ORCID into its systems.
Therefore, the project ORCID DE was initiated and funded by the German research foundation, DFG. The goal of the ORCID DE project was to establish ORCID as a standard for persistent identification in Germany across all institutions, and all that should network and sustainably support these distributed implementation activities.
The project pursued to support facilities and the implementation of ORCID and providing a German speaking platform extend and streamline the usage of ORCID and publish an expert opinion on ORCID in terms of data protection law. In order to achieve the first goal. A Germany wide analysis of the needs of the scientific community was conducted. The results of this extensive survey were incorporated into the conception of the ORCID DE dialogue platform, which was launched in May 2016 and the first three project workshops.
Furthermore, the project members, Helmholtz and the Bielefeld University library implemented ORCID in their systems. In order to extend and streamline the usage of ORCID, the project partner institutions, German National Library and the Bielefeld University library enabled the so-called "claiming". This function allows a researcher to manually claim his or her contribution to a publication, which is indexed and a repository, e.g. of his or her institution and link it to the own ORCID record.
Moreover, they develop the "search and link claiming service", which helps researchers, especially in German speaking countries, to discover and connect with their activities from within their ORCID record. This connection, surely, between those information system makes it possible to unlock the full potential of ORCID and strengthen the visibility and discoverability of publications in Germany. Furthermore during the course of the ORCID DE project, an exhaustive legal analysis of ORCID's privacy policy that would provide legal certainty and support for institutions planning to implement ORCID was conducted by iRights, which is a specialized law firm on digital media and published in June 2017.
This analysis received great attention through Germany and also received positive international recognition and was awarded with the ORCID consortia award. And speaking of ORCID consortia, the ORCID Germany consortium was founded by 18 additional members institutions supported by the ORCID DE project. And in cooperation with this German National Library of science and technology, in short TIB.
Since the start of the project, ORCID plays a central role at the level of national standards, but also at the local level in German academic institutions. Against this background, a follow up project ORCID DE 2 was approved by the funder DFG. The activities of the second funding phase from 2020 to 2022 focused on the expansion and consolidation of the established network of scientific institutions that have implemented ORCID.
On the one hand, we aim to professionalize our consulting activities for institutions or target groups interested in using ORCID. And on the other hand, we wanted to support the development of an identification system for organizations that are linked to ORCID. One major advantage in this project phase was that DataCite and the German National Library of Sciences and Technology TIB, joined as project partners.
So what was achieved in this project phase? While at the beginning of the project. in May 2016, only about 44,000 researchers in Germany had registered an ORCID iD At least 230,000 scientists working in Germany now have an ORCID iD. Also the Germany consortium grows and is with 84 members. One of the largest consortia worldwide.
And ORCID DE 2, we set a Major focus on professionalising and expanding our communications. The dialogue platform, orcid-de.org We built up in the first funding phase is one of the most essential pillars of the success of the project by providing relevant information about ORCID membership and implementation abroad FAQ and best practices section. we were able to create an attractive information platform on ORCID in Germany and therefore building up a broad community of practice.
A further important pillar of the project was the organization of events. In ORCID DE 2 we organized three online workshops and four seminars which were attended by an average of over 270 people. For the second funding phase. Another goal was to develop a website for the visualization of statistics with a public user interface in order to provide a reliable tool for the use and dissemination of ORCID related metadata.
This tool, the ORCID DE monitor, was launched in June 2021 and is online available both in German and English. And in order to promote an identification system for organizations and extent of survey was conducted on the need for and dissemination of organizational IDs in Germany, and the results were published. The survey findings are published both in German and English.
And, as I mentioned before, ORCID DE aimed to strengthen the connection between ORCID and especially the identification services of the German National Library and the Bielefeld library. So we continue to optimize these linkings further. In summer Last year, the million mark of publications in the German national bibliography with at least one ORCID ID and the person fields was exceeded.
In addition, over 375,000 publications and BASE contained one or more of these. So I can summarize that the ORCID DE project felt like a fast selling item because of that and the importance of persistent identification, were already well known. Nevertheless, there was a need for detailed information and knowledge transfer, and I think those four "C"-lessons are my main takeaways from the project that I can highly recommend for consideration.
Yeah, but what's next? As as I described before, the ORCID DE project partners have started working intensively on linking all ORCID iDs to other PID systems in order to push this interlinking even further. We were able to get funding for a follow up project called PID Network Germany. Within the new project, we set ourselves the goal of establishing a network of research organization, that are interested in PIDs to identify needs and optimization potential for existing PID systems.
The project findings will lead to recommendations within the framework of a national PID roadmap for Germany. And for this, we identified 10 PID sections we wanted to focus on, which you can see on this last slide. So we are very much looking forward to continuing our engagement in PIDs together and for the German science community and beyond. And that's all for my side. Thank you very much for your attention.
And I am looking forward for your questions and your thoughts and the discussion round. Thank you very much. Thank you, Antonia. Now, Owen, can you please share your screen?
Right can you see my slides? Can you hear me? Yeah yeah, everything looks good. OK hello, everyone. And thank you for the opportunity to talk about the persistent identify strategy for Africa. My name is Owen Iyoha. I work for an NREN that operates in Nigeria called EKO-Konnect research and education initiative.
I think you lost connection. Hello Hi. It looks fine for me. Right so I will continue. As I was saying, I work for the EKO-Konnect research and education initiative, which an NREN run in Nigeria. And I also wear the hat of the co-chair of the Libsense infrastructure working group.
So first of all, just give a brief summary of what the Libsense infrastructure working group is. It is essentially parts of Libsense and Libsense is a program that's aimed at developing the African open science community and the adoption of open science infrastructure. It has three working groups and the infrastructure working group is one of those working groups.
This working group comprises of NREN practitioners like myself, librarians, researchers and other open access advocates that work in Africa and also some friends from outside of the continent who work within Africa with the goal of moving the awareness and adoption of open science and the associated infrastructures in the continent.
So obviously, why the need for an African PID strategy? Persistent identifier awareness is still quite low in the continent and a lot of the researchers who work within the space or maybe on their own, on their own, but been able to work and look to add persistent identifiers to their scholarly work. But because of the general lack of awareness or understanding of how things work and their importance on a holistic basis, PIDs have not been properly or adopted or embraced in many parts of Africa.
And as such, a lot of the African research and scholarly outputs go largely unnoticed within the global research and education community. Again, that is not to say there aren't PID activities in the continent. There are pockets of good adoption of PIDs in certain parts of Africa, and the use of digital objects. Identifiers from publishers and organizations like crossref and DataCite do happen.
But again, by and large, in the context of the entire continent, the adoption is relatively low. So the goal of Libsense of which is this movement that I work, work with is to put out a number of documents that helps the adoption of open science and in terms of policies, capacity building and other endeavors needed to make open science a mainstay within our research and education communities.
And the Libsense infrastructure working group decided that we need to contribute another document that addresses the use and adoption of pids in a coherent strategy so that other nations within the continents, either at a national or institutional level, can take these documents and use it as a way of being able to strategize on how they could implement persistence identifiers in a holistic manner.
It took some time actually to get the documents prepared, and it's currently being reviewed by some of our stakeholders for validation and before publishing. So I'm really just going to summarize some of what is contained within that document. Obviously, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel. There's been a lot of good work that has been done by so many organizations to develop system identifier infrastructure around the globe.
And so we're not unaware of the work that organizations like ORCID, scopus, Ide, DataCite and Crossref have done with DOIs. But what's also very, very encouraging and very promising from an African perspective is the growth of education identity on the continent. There are a number of national identity federations that are now emerging in the continent.
And countries like Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya have actually got an established Nigerian identity, national identity federations. And as such, these infrastructure and ecosystems could coalesce around identity infrastructures like ORCID and DOIs to actually promote PIDs. So that's very encouraging.
And obviously there's a lot of work that's been done by the FREYA project. And other such projects that we will take from in order to come up with a cohesive strategy for adoption in Africa. Again, we're also wanting to be able to showcase the research outputs and scholarly outputs that are happening in Africa. There is a lot of research that is being undertaken but is not very visible globally.
And of course, persistent identifiers will play a critical role in ensuring that our research outputs in Africa can be seen. However, 1 particular challenge that we need to address within our strategy is the implementation costs of adopting PIDs. We're very conscious of supporting open science and open access.
And we also have to explain to our communities that open and open science and open access does come with some costs. And we have to educate our policymakers, our national funders, government that they do need to prioritize financial commitments for the support of within the research ecosystem. But also at the same time, we want to be able to engage in some dialogue with the organizations that are behind some of this infrastructure that we can look at, how we can revise funding models that can be beneficial for African researchers and institutions and also not be disadvantage to such organizations if we can actually get the numbers in.
So funding is a critical aspect of our PID strategy for Africa. What we are also looking at is being able to have a governance and governance. That's not where our institutions can sort of. form, be under an umbrella of governance, and we can then actually manage the different financial implications and infrastructure implications within some governance sets of consultation.
And of course, once we can do that and showcase the benefits of governance and interoperability with PID initiatives, then we hope that PID adoption will grow very quickly. And we are hoping that within the strategy may be one of the things we're looking at is to probably find a way of seeking some initial funding for this strategy. So that all the stakeholders, researchers, all librarians can actually see the benefits of the PIDs in terms of the scholarly outputs, visibility and interoperability of infrastructure with other systems.
So that they themselves can start to evangelize and advocate for the wider adoption of persistent identifiers. Of course, with anything of this nature, because of the low awareness among many of our researchers, there's a lot of advocacy and capacity development that needs to be undertaken. And part of the strategy will involve being able to run a series of workshops, webinars, going into campuses to really work, particularly with our early career researchers who are postgraduates or postdoctoral researchers, to basically get them on board with using PIDs as part of their research, practice and development of their outputs and research.
So the recommendations that the document is sort of looking at is the idea of leveraging consortia to drive adoption and bring the various stakeholders into that consortium for governance and for management of some of the financial implications. We think as well that National Research and education networks than most institutions are familiar with and trust could actually be part of the driving force of these consortium and leveraging the infrastructure that we provide in terms of identity federations to actually co-opt other identifiers into that infrastructure.
That might be a way to grow the adoption and improve the skill of the way PIDs are adopted, because we can sort of talk about how PIDs can be integrated into daily workflows. So these are some of the recommendations that we're looking at for the uptake of PIDs. So again, here's the contact information for Libsense and also for EKO-Konnect.
So really very excited to talk about in this forum and hopefully in the future, we're looking at a situation where PIDs are just part commonplace and just part of the open science infrastructure that is being used and utilized by higher education in Africa and in my case in Nigeria in particular. So thank you very much and look forward to questions.
Thank you Owen. Yeah, I think. I think that's fine because I'm going to be there showing up there anyway. So OK. OK thanks, Owen. So now Gabby will start her presentation.
Thanks, Carol. I'm going to share my screen. So Hi, everyone. It's great to be part of this NISO Plus session. And today I will present the FAIR impact project, work currently being done to communicate the value of persistent identifiers across the European open Science Cloud.
Before we begin with that, for those of you who are new to DataCite, we're a non-profit organization and our mission is to identify knowledge and connect research. And we do so by providing Doi and metadata registration services. Our institutional members use our infrastructure services to make research findable, citable and usable, and we are an organization created by and for the community, and we participate in many community projects and initiatives like the one I'm going to talk about today.
EOSC stands for European open science. Cloud, it has a goal of developing a web of FAIR data and services for science in Europe. EOSC will be a multidisciplinary environment where researchers can publish, find and re-use data, tools. And services, and this will enable them to better conduct their work.
EOSC builds on existing infrastructure and services and is supported by the European commission, member states and research communities. And it brings all this together in a Federated approach, adding value by aggregating content and enabling services to be used together. And the FAIR impact project is a three year project that started in 2022, is funded by the horizon Europe program and is led by DANS, which is the Dutch National Center of expertise and repository for research data.
And the goal is to expand fair solutions in Europe by enabling discovery and interoperability of Federated research across scientific communities. And this is a coordination and support project. This is the project architecture. And you can see all the work packages. There's work package three, which is specifically focused on persistent identifiers where DataCite, along with other organizations, are cooperating to work with PID service providers and infrastructures to meet user needs and to align with iEOSC policy and to improve adoption.
And as part of this task we are leading. The final goal is to deliver a shared long term vision for service providers in EOSC, and you can see here the different phases of the project. So the first one, the one I'm going to talk to you I'm going to talk about today is to deliver a shared value propositions PID by providers.
So that will be the first step. The second one will be to propose a coordination mechanism on how PID providers should work to be integrated in this European open Science Cloud. And the third and last step will be to align requirements to onboard PID providers to be integrated into this EOSC web of data and services. And this will include emerging persistent identifiers.
And this is not something that we can do on our own. But actually what we want to do is to facilitate more collaboration between providers and the EOSC community. So we hosted a hybrid workshop by the end of last year and we invited the community to participate.
So here you can see some of PID the providers and other related organizations that participated in that session. And something also important to mention about this project is that although there are many national initiatives working with PID and fair implementation, this is one of the first ones at this (regional) scale.
It aims to integrate persistent identifiers on a regional level and the implementation's reach is 27 European member countries. So this is important to say because although EOSC is European in focus, it's global in scope. And beyond that this joint value proposition and all the project outcomes can provide valuable resources for the community in general.
So as I mentioned before, we hosted this hybrid workshop session and we did a value proposition exercise as part of this exercise. We discussed first roles in the PID infrastructure as defined in the EOSC PID Policy, EOSC has published a policy on persistent identifiers in 2020 that establishes some roles and guidelines for providers and those who use PID in the European scale.
And the first thing we did was discuss whether or how these roles defined in the policy map or match with what's happening across existing infrastructures. We then discussed the overall value of identifiers across the research ecosystem. And then we had more granular discussions focused on EOSC.
So current pain points that persistent identifiers can help address/solve, and then the benefits of persistent identifiers for EOSC users, specifically researchers, research organizations, service providers and funders. And what I'm showing now is the result of that discussion, specifically the one about the overall value or benefits of purchasing identifiers across the research ecosystem.
So this is what came after, after the discussion. And you can see that, yeah, providing unique identification and name disambiguation leads to standardization. And this contributes to enable identification and PIDs across a global scale.
Identifiers also enable reliable linking and connections between entities that can be both human and machine actionable. They also enable tracking and this can improve reporting. And this can also help to better understand research, outputs and activities and the overall impact of research.
Another characteristic is that PIDs can offer open and rich metadata, and this allows and can help increase interoperability. And this also saves both time and money through automation. And this allows for more innovation. And also identifiers and their associated metadata can help improve both discoverability and reusability of research.
And this also helps to more recognition of a wide range of contributions to research. This can also contribute to preservation, and overall, this can lead to have more trust in research. And something also very important that came from this discussion is that many PID provider organizations are governed by the community.
And is this social infrastructure around persistent identifiers that guarantees the persistence itself And this is a work in progress. I shared just a piece of the discussion of the outcome. We are still working to finalize the value proposition and especially around the more granular parts of the discussion.
So this report should be completed and made available by the end of March. So we'll share that with the community. And this is the end of my presentation. Thank you. Great thanks, Gaby. So now thank you for staying with us throughout our presentations.
And now please join us on the Zoom call where we'll have the discussion session of the session. Thanks
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Hello, everyone and welcome to the communicating the value of PDS and metadata. What's in it for me. What's in it for you. NISO Plus session. I'm Carolina Tanigushi and I work at the SciELO Program and I'll be your moderator for the session where we mean to understand the lineage, usage, and value propositions for investing in better, more robust and interoperable metadata.
How to address the needs of different stakeholders for new metadata schemes, and establish a narrative for cross stakeholder value propositions such as publishers, librarians, researchers, funders, policymakers, et cetera, and ask ourselves if metadata should be considered a product with associated stuff and how to go about that. Speaking today, we have Matthias Liffers, the Research Data Specialist at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
Who will be talking about the value of PIDs. Next, we have Antonia Schrader, Open Science Officer at the Helmholtz Association. Who'll be speaking about the case of ORCID in Germany. Then we have Owen Iyoha, CEO of the EKO-Konnect Research and Education Initiative. Who will be talking about the Libsense Infrastructure working group, of which he is the co-chair. And last but not least, Gabriela Mejias, Community Manager of DataCite who will be speaking about the valuesof PIDs in EOSC, the European Open Science Cloud.
OK, so first we have Matthias. Hi, my name is Matthias. I'm from the Australian Research Data Commons and I'm delighted to be talking to you today about the value of PIDs. I would like to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work. The Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation.
I pay my respects to the elders past, present, and emerging and extend that respect to any first nations people in this session. I would also like to thank the conference and session organizers for the opportunity to speak to you today. Before I get into the value of PIDs. I'd like to give you a little bit of background on the Australian Research data Commons. Its purpose is to provide Australian researchers with competitive advantage through data.
We accelerate research and innovation by driving excellence in the creation and analysis and retention of high quality data assets. Pictured here is the current ARDC strategy. We operate a range of programs and services over four portfolios. The two main portfolios are platforms and software and data and services. Our storage and compute and people and policy portfolios support the work that the two main portfolios undertake.
For the last two years, we have been running a range of open calls that give us a unique insight into the digital research infrastructure needs of the Australian research and innovation community and have influenced our priorities. Money talks, and it has since before the start of recorded history. When communicating the value of something. One of the most straightforward ways of communicating that value to others is by distilling it to a monetary value.
Inspired by a report commissioned by JISC in early 2021, the Australian Research Data Commons worked with MoreBrains Co-operative to distill the value of PIDs and their metadata to the Australian Research sector through consultation investigation and a lot of number crunching. More brains was able to determine that Australia spends 24 million Australian dollars a year. That's around 15 and a half million euro.
to re-enter metadata on publications, grants, people, projects and organizations. That is to say the Australian research sector could save $24 million each year by adopting the five PIDs that cover these five concepts in the research ecosystem. Based on work on the value of research investment by CSIRO Australia's National Research agency, that $24 million would generate $84 million of benefits to the Australian economy if it were to be invested into research rather than into data entry.
And remember, this is per year. What are the five priority PIDs? Well, I guess it's actually four PIDs for five concepts due to the versatility of DOIs. We have ORCIDs for people, RORs for organizations, RAiD for research projects, research activities, DOIs for research outputs and DOIs for grants. Many of you may already be familiar with these persistent identifiers.
If not, I heartily encourage you to learn more about them. I'm afraid I don't have time to go into all of the report's findings, as I'd rather spend time in discussion with you during the Q&A. If you would like to read the full report. It's freely available to download. I'll leave this slide up for a few moments. So you can get your phone out and scan the QR code. Hopefully I'll also remember to post the DIY into the chat if I don't feel free to gently remind me.
So now we have this marvellous report that outlines how much PIDs are worth to Australia. What's next? Well, the ARDC is bringing together all the stakeholder groups and facilitating the collaborative creation of a national PID strategy and roadmap. This strategy and roadmap will outline how Australia's research and innovation sector can realize the benefits of PIDs and their metadata.
In fact, we'll be conducting a hybrid workshop next week on Monday to get started on this work. If you work in the Australian research and innovation sector and would like to take part, please let me know and I'll send you the registration details. That's all I'm going to cover during this presentation, but please connect with us. The ARDC has a newsletter with the latest digital research, news events, resources, career opportunities and more.
You can also seek our advice on national digital research and data questions. I'm looking forward to talking to you during the Q&A. If you have any questions that we don't get the opportunity to address during that session, I invite you to contact me directly by email or Mastodon. Thank you. thank you, Matthias.
And now we have Antonia. Please, could you share your screen? OK hi, everyone. Thank you for having me today. My name is Antonia Schrader, and I'm working for the Helmholtz Open Science Office of the Helmholtz Association, which is one of the large research organizations in Germany.
Today, I want to tell you the story of the project. ORCID DE and I can proudly say that it is a project driven success story. I'd like to share the experiences my project colleagues and I made during the two funding phases from 2016 until the end of 2022, and give you an outlook on what we are working on next. So let's start at the very first beginning. As the dissemination of the research journals began to move online in the mid 1990s, it became clear that to fullfil the promise of a robust, inclusive web of scholarly communications, there needed to be two things a unique person identifier system for published works and another such system for the people creating those works.
The initial focus was on the works identifier, resulting in the introduction of the Digital Object Identifier in 1997. But by 2009, the momentum had shifted to create a contributor identifier, which led to the incorporation of the non-profit open research and contributor ID ORCID and the launch of the ORCID service in 2012. Since these days, ORCID has been established as the leading organization for providing a persistent digital identifier, the ORCID ID that researchers own and control, and that distinguishes every other researcher worldwide.
In June 2015 ORCID recorded more than 7 million works by around 1.4 million people. But the high number of registered users should not hide the fact that the implementation of the standard ORCID and scientific institutions in Germany have hardly taken place until the start of the project ORCID DE. At that time, the Helmholtz center at Jülich was the only scientific institution in Germany that was an ORCID member and worked on the integration of ORCID into its systems.
Therefore, the project ORCID DE was initiated and funded by the German research foundation, DFG. The goal of the ORCID DE project was to establish ORCID as a standard for persistent identification in Germany across all institutions, and all that should network and sustainably support these distributed implementation activities.
The project pursued to support facilities and the implementation of ORCID and providing a German speaking platform extend and streamline the usage of ORCID and publish an expert opinion on ORCID in terms of data protection law. In order to achieve the first goal. A Germany wide analysis of the needs of the scientific community was conducted. The results of this extensive survey were incorporated into the conception of the ORCID DE dialogue platform, which was launched in May 2016 and the first three project workshops.
Furthermore, the project members, Helmholtz and the Bielefeld University library implemented ORCID in their systems. In order to extend and streamline the usage of ORCID, the project partner institutions, German National Library and the Bielefeld University library enabled the so-called "claiming". This function allows a researcher to manually claim his or her contribution to a publication, which is indexed and a repository, e.g. of his or her institution and link it to the own ORCID record.
Moreover, they develop the "search and link claiming service", which helps researchers, especially in German speaking countries, to discover and connect with their activities from within their ORCID record. This connection, surely, between those information system makes it possible to unlock the full potential of ORCID and strengthen the visibility and discoverability of publications in Germany. Furthermore during the course of the ORCID DE project, an exhaustive legal analysis of ORCID's privacy policy that would provide legal certainty and support for institutions planning to implement ORCID was conducted by iRights, which is a specialized law firm on digital media and published in June 2017.
This analysis received great attention through Germany and also received positive international recognition and was awarded with the ORCID consortia award. And speaking of ORCID consortia, the ORCID Germany consortium was founded by 18 additional members institutions supported by the ORCID DE project. And in cooperation with this German National Library of science and technology, in short TIB.
Since the start of the project, ORCID plays a central role at the level of national standards, but also at the local level in German academic institutions. Against this background, a follow up project ORCID DE 2 was approved by the funder DFG. The activities of the second funding phase from 2020 to 2022 focused on the expansion and consolidation of the established network of scientific institutions that have implemented ORCID.
On the one hand, we aim to professionalize our consulting activities for institutions or target groups interested in using ORCID. And on the other hand, we wanted to support the development of an identification system for organizations that are linked to ORCID. One major advantage in this project phase was that DataCite and the German National Library of Sciences and Technology TIB, joined as project partners.
So what was achieved in this project phase? While at the beginning of the project. in May 2016, only about 44,000 researchers in Germany had registered an ORCID iD At least 230,000 scientists working in Germany now have an ORCID iD. Also the Germany consortium grows and is with 84 members. One of the largest consortia worldwide.
And ORCID DE 2, we set a Major focus on professionalising and expanding our communications. The dialogue platform, orcid-de.org We built up in the first funding phase is one of the most essential pillars of the success of the project by providing relevant information about ORCID membership and implementation abroad FAQ and best practices section. we were able to create an attractive information platform on ORCID in Germany and therefore building up a broad community of practice.
A further important pillar of the project was the organization of events. In ORCID DE 2 we organized three online workshops and four seminars which were attended by an average of over 270 people. For the second funding phase. Another goal was to develop a website for the visualization of statistics with a public user interface in order to provide a reliable tool for the use and dissemination of ORCID related metadata.
This tool, the ORCID DE monitor, was launched in June 2021 and is online available both in German and English. And in order to promote an identification system for organizations and extent of survey was conducted on the need for and dissemination of organizational IDs in Germany, and the results were published. The survey findings are published both in German and English.
And, as I mentioned before, ORCID DE aimed to strengthen the connection between ORCID and especially the identification services of the German National Library and the Bielefeld library. So we continue to optimize these linkings further. In summer Last year, the million mark of publications in the German national bibliography with at least one ORCID ID and the person fields was exceeded.
In addition, over 375,000 publications and BASE contained one or more of these. So I can summarize that the ORCID DE project felt like a fast selling item because of that and the importance of persistent identification, were already well known. Nevertheless, there was a need for detailed information and knowledge transfer, and I think those four "C"-lessons are my main takeaways from the project that I can highly recommend for consideration.
Yeah, but what's next? As as I described before, the ORCID DE project partners have started working intensively on linking all ORCID iDs to other PID systems in order to push this interlinking even further. We were able to get funding for a follow up project called PID Network Germany. Within the new project, we set ourselves the goal of establishing a network of research organization, that are interested in PIDs to identify needs and optimization potential for existing PID systems.
The project findings will lead to recommendations within the framework of a national PID roadmap for Germany. And for this, we identified 10 PID sections we wanted to focus on, which you can see on this last slide. So we are very much looking forward to continuing our engagement in PIDs together and for the German science community and beyond. And that's all for my side. Thank you very much for your attention.
And I am looking forward for your questions and your thoughts and the discussion round. Thank you very much. Thank you, Antonia. Now, Owen, can you please share your screen?
Right can you see my slides? Can you hear me? Yeah yeah, everything looks good. OK hello, everyone. And thank you for the opportunity to talk about the persistent identify strategy for Africa. My name is Owen Iyoha. I work for an NREN that operates in Nigeria called EKO-Konnect research and education initiative.
I think you lost connection. Hello Hi. It looks fine for me. Right so I will continue. As I was saying, I work for the EKO-Konnect research and education initiative, which an NREN run in Nigeria. And I also wear the hat of the co-chair of the Libsense infrastructure working group.
So first of all, just give a brief summary of what the Libsense infrastructure working group is. It is essentially parts of Libsense and Libsense is a program that's aimed at developing the African open science community and the adoption of open science infrastructure. It has three working groups and the infrastructure working group is one of those working groups.
This working group comprises of NREN practitioners like myself, librarians, researchers and other open access advocates that work in Africa and also some friends from outside of the continent who work within Africa with the goal of moving the awareness and adoption of open science and the associated infrastructures in the continent.
So obviously, why the need for an African PID strategy? Persistent identifier awareness is still quite low in the continent and a lot of the researchers who work within the space or maybe on their own, on their own, but been able to work and look to add persistent identifiers to their scholarly work. But because of the general lack of awareness or understanding of how things work and their importance on a holistic basis, PIDs have not been properly or adopted or embraced in many parts of Africa.
And as such, a lot of the African research and scholarly outputs go largely unnoticed within the global research and education community. Again, that is not to say there aren't PID activities in the continent. There are pockets of good adoption of PIDs in certain parts of Africa, and the use of digital objects. Identifiers from publishers and organizations like crossref and DataCite do happen.
But again, by and large, in the context of the entire continent, the adoption is relatively low. So the goal of Libsense of which is this movement that I work, work with is to put out a number of documents that helps the adoption of open science and in terms of policies, capacity building and other endeavors needed to make open science a mainstay within our research and education communities.
And the Libsense infrastructure working group decided that we need to contribute another document that addresses the use and adoption of pids in a coherent strategy so that other nations within the continents, either at a national or institutional level, can take these documents and use it as a way of being able to strategize on how they could implement persistence identifiers in a holistic manner.
It took some time actually to get the documents prepared, and it's currently being reviewed by some of our stakeholders for validation and before publishing. So I'm really just going to summarize some of what is contained within that document. Obviously, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel. There's been a lot of good work that has been done by so many organizations to develop system identifier infrastructure around the globe.
And so we're not unaware of the work that organizations like ORCID, scopus, Ide, DataCite and Crossref have done with DOIs. But what's also very, very encouraging and very promising from an African perspective is the growth of education identity on the continent. There are a number of national identity federations that are now emerging in the continent.
And countries like Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya have actually got an established Nigerian identity, national identity federations. And as such, these infrastructure and ecosystems could coalesce around identity infrastructures like ORCID and DOIs to actually promote PIDs. So that's very encouraging.
And obviously there's a lot of work that's been done by the FREYA project. And other such projects that we will take from in order to come up with a cohesive strategy for adoption in Africa. Again, we're also wanting to be able to showcase the research outputs and scholarly outputs that are happening in Africa. There is a lot of research that is being undertaken but is not very visible globally.
And of course, persistent identifiers will play a critical role in ensuring that our research outputs in Africa can be seen. However, 1 particular challenge that we need to address within our strategy is the implementation costs of adopting PIDs. We're very conscious of supporting open science and open access.
And we also have to explain to our communities that open and open science and open access does come with some costs. And we have to educate our policymakers, our national funders, government that they do need to prioritize financial commitments for the support of within the research ecosystem. But also at the same time, we want to be able to engage in some dialogue with the organizations that are behind some of this infrastructure that we can look at, how we can revise funding models that can be beneficial for African researchers and institutions and also not be disadvantage to such organizations if we can actually get the numbers in.
So funding is a critical aspect of our PID strategy for Africa. What we are also looking at is being able to have a governance and governance. That's not where our institutions can sort of. form, be under an umbrella of governance, and we can then actually manage the different financial implications and infrastructure implications within some governance sets of consultation.
And of course, once we can do that and showcase the benefits of governance and interoperability with PID initiatives, then we hope that PID adoption will grow very quickly. And we are hoping that within the strategy may be one of the things we're looking at is to probably find a way of seeking some initial funding for this strategy. So that all the stakeholders, researchers, all librarians can actually see the benefits of the PIDs in terms of the scholarly outputs, visibility and interoperability of infrastructure with other systems.
So that they themselves can start to evangelize and advocate for the wider adoption of persistent identifiers. Of course, with anything of this nature, because of the low awareness among many of our researchers, there's a lot of advocacy and capacity development that needs to be undertaken. And part of the strategy will involve being able to run a series of workshops, webinars, going into campuses to really work, particularly with our early career researchers who are postgraduates or postdoctoral researchers, to basically get them on board with using PIDs as part of their research, practice and development of their outputs and research.
So the recommendations that the document is sort of looking at is the idea of leveraging consortia to drive adoption and bring the various stakeholders into that consortium for governance and for management of some of the financial implications. We think as well that National Research and education networks than most institutions are familiar with and trust could actually be part of the driving force of these consortium and leveraging the infrastructure that we provide in terms of identity federations to actually co-opt other identifiers into that infrastructure.
That might be a way to grow the adoption and improve the skill of the way PIDs are adopted, because we can sort of talk about how PIDs can be integrated into daily workflows. So these are some of the recommendations that we're looking at for the uptake of PIDs. So again, here's the contact information for Libsense and also for EKO-Konnect.
So really very excited to talk about in this forum and hopefully in the future, we're looking at a situation where PIDs are just part commonplace and just part of the open science infrastructure that is being used and utilized by higher education in Africa and in my case in Nigeria in particular. So thank you very much and look forward to questions.
Thank you Owen. Yeah, I think. I think that's fine because I'm going to be there showing up there anyway. So OK. OK thanks, Owen. So now Gabby will start her presentation.
Thanks, Carol. I'm going to share my screen. So Hi, everyone. It's great to be part of this NISO Plus session. And today I will present the FAIR impact project, work currently being done to communicate the value of persistent identifiers across the European open Science Cloud.
Before we begin with that, for those of you who are new to DataCite, we're a non-profit organization and our mission is to identify knowledge and connect research. And we do so by providing Doi and metadata registration services. Our institutional members use our infrastructure services to make research findable, citable and usable, and we are an organization created by and for the community, and we participate in many community projects and initiatives like the one I'm going to talk about today.
EOSC stands for European open science. Cloud, it has a goal of developing a web of FAIR data and services for science in Europe. EOSC will be a multidisciplinary environment where researchers can publish, find and re-use data, tools. And services, and this will enable them to better conduct their work.
EOSC builds on existing infrastructure and services and is supported by the European commission, member states and research communities. And it brings all this together in a Federated approach, adding value by aggregating content and enabling services to be used together. And the FAIR impact project is a three year project that started in 2022, is funded by the horizon Europe program and is led by DANS, which is the Dutch National Center of expertise and repository for research data.
And the goal is to expand fair solutions in Europe by enabling discovery and interoperability of Federated research across scientific communities. And this is a coordination and support project. This is the project architecture. And you can see all the work packages. There's work package three, which is specifically focused on persistent identifiers where DataCite, along with other organizations, are cooperating to work with PID service providers and infrastructures to meet user needs and to align with iEOSC policy and to improve adoption.
And as part of this task we are leading. The final goal is to deliver a shared long term vision for service providers in EOSC, and you can see here the different phases of the project. So the first one, the one I'm going to talk to you I'm going to talk about today is to deliver a shared value propositions PID by providers.
So that will be the first step. The second one will be to propose a coordination mechanism on how PID providers should work to be integrated in this European open Science Cloud. And the third and last step will be to align requirements to onboard PID providers to be integrated into this EOSC web of data and services. And this will include emerging persistent identifiers.
And this is not something that we can do on our own. But actually what we want to do is to facilitate more collaboration between providers and the EOSC community. So we hosted a hybrid workshop by the end of last year and we invited the community to participate.
So here you can see some of PID the providers and other related organizations that participated in that session. And something also important to mention about this project is that although there are many national initiatives working with PID and fair implementation, this is one of the first ones at this (regional) scale.
It aims to integrate persistent identifiers on a regional level and the implementation's reach is 27 European member countries. So this is important to say because although EOSC is European in focus, it's global in scope. And beyond that this joint value proposition and all the project outcomes can provide valuable resources for the community in general.
So as I mentioned before, we hosted this hybrid workshop session and we did a value proposition exercise as part of this exercise. We discussed first roles in the PID infrastructure as defined in the EOSC PID Policy, EOSC has published a policy on persistent identifiers in 2020 that establishes some roles and guidelines for providers and those who use PID in the European scale.
And the first thing we did was discuss whether or how these roles defined in the policy map or match with what's happening across existing infrastructures. We then discussed the overall value of identifiers across the research ecosystem. And then we had more granular discussions focused on EOSC.
So current pain points that persistent identifiers can help address/solve, and then the benefits of persistent identifiers for EOSC users, specifically researchers, research organizations, service providers and funders. And what I'm showing now is the result of that discussion, specifically the one about the overall value or benefits of purchasing identifiers across the research ecosystem.
So this is what came after, after the discussion. And you can see that, yeah, providing unique identification and name disambiguation leads to standardization. And this contributes to enable identification and PIDs across a global scale.
Identifiers also enable reliable linking and connections between entities that can be both human and machine actionable. They also enable tracking and this can improve reporting. And this can also help to better understand research, outputs and activities and the overall impact of research.
Another characteristic is that PIDs can offer open and rich metadata, and this allows and can help increase interoperability. And this also saves both time and money through automation. And this allows for more innovation. And also identifiers and their associated metadata can help improve both discoverability and reusability of research.
And this also helps to more recognition of a wide range of contributions to research. This can also contribute to preservation, and overall, this can lead to have more trust in research. And something also very important that came from this discussion is that many PID provider organizations are governed by the community.
And is this social infrastructure around persistent identifiers that guarantees the persistence itself And this is a work in progress. I shared just a piece of the discussion of the outcome. We are still working to finalize the value proposition and especially around the more granular parts of the discussion.
So this report should be completed and made available by the end of March. So we'll share that with the community. And this is the end of my presentation. Thank you. Great thanks, Gaby. So now thank you for staying with us throughout our presentations.
And now please join us on the Zoom call where we'll have the discussion session of the session. Thanks
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