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PURE and ORCID - a happy marriage?- a researcher’s perspective

Thomas

Ryberg

Professor

mso

, MA,

PhD

Department of

Communication

E-

learning

Lab – center for

user

driven, innovation,

learning

and design

ryberg@hum.aau.dk

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AgendaI am very happy with the marriage

– it

makes

my

life

easier

– as a researcher I

like

that

!

In

this

talk – a more

critical

/

polemic

perspective

on the PURE/ORCID

rationality

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DisclaimerNot necessarily a representative researcherFrom the humanities – but born into the publish-or-perish tradition (regime) Interested in technologyResearch into creative use of social media

Want ownership over systems

Do my own PURE/ORCID registrations and like PURE/ORCID (actually…)

My role today: Provoke, inspire, have a dialogue – any critique is well meant

Maybe I’m just a weirdoSlide4

A critique of pure reasoningSlide5

PURE as public knowledge base

”Research database is

publically

available

and delivers

knowledge

and

gains

to

local

enterprises

and research

activities

”

”The database

disseminates

AAUs

research

to society and the

individual

citizen

”

How PURE

was

described

once

in AAU (and it

was

a genuine

wish

from

our

library

)Slide6

ORCID as research service

ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers

.

ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of research and scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and

contributors

ORCID will transcend discipline, geographic, national and institutional, boundariesSlide7

Key terms and rationality

Rendering visible the activities of researchers is a step towards more open knowledge

Openness and transparency are inherently good principles

Researchers are interested in showing their work to the world and share their data (which is true)

How could opening up be problematic?Slide8

CRIS as control and surveillance of the employees

Extreme

control

and

overview

of

individual

researcher’s

production

and participation in

projects

Instrumentalisation

and

quanitification

Counting

machine

–

now

used

for

hiring

/firing and distribution of

money

internally

6 points to

become

associate

professor

–

fixed

amount

for a

level

2

paper

(

local

rules

) – bonus for

particularly

productive

researchersSlide9

Fear and insecurity

Thomas

lacks

2.5 points to attain this year’s minimum quota

Efficiency

to be increased by

145% to attain a professor

mso

78% of the employees produce

more

than Thomas

Thomas’ income (based on BFI) for AAU is

lousy

15.000 DKK

Thomas’ Publish-to-Perish-ratio is

0.25 (below 0.10 is perish)Slide10

AAU: Redundancies (firing)ForskerForum 10. October:”

Reason

for firing

people

is

that

the

dept

doesn’t

generate

enough

money, so there’s a deficit compared

to

number

of

staff

. Managements

criteria

have

been

an

assessment

of the

individual

employee’s

competence

profilce

and performance:

Do

you

score

publication

points and

grants

?

” DJØF-union rep. Jesper Lindgaard Christensen. (my translation)So….Slide11

Clip from PURE at AAU11

This

should

be

‘

grants

’ by the

way

….Slide12

General sentiment (not saying this is how things are

…but

how

many

feel

they

are

)

"Paradoxically, the more that politics insists on the importance of the university, the more it actually drives the institution away from material realities and from democratic civil engagement... Management and control of knowledge has become more important than research, teaching or even thinking and living the good life together

“ Thomas

Docherty: "Universities at

War“

Increased “

professionalisation

” of management (hugely increased salaries, less contact with research and researchers, more managers)

Increased political control, micro-management, research assessments, growth in numbers of employees in the administrative layer etc.

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That is not the systems’ fault?PURE is not neutral but the material basis for research assessment measures as Danish BFI and the likeOverview of the individual’s or departments ‘production’ – affects distribution of funding and therefore also research practice

More work has been put into PURE as a counting and administrative device than as a system benefitting and empowering researchers

This is the managements’ priorities – as always – focused on solving problems of the administration itself rather than supporting core services…(said somewhat polemically

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)

Will ORCID

become similar – how will management implement ORCID? For what reasons?

ORCID in AAU – create a profile in three weeks or someone will do it for you. No choice – and few know the

whats

and whys of ORCID (I believe) – I can control visibility of my ORCID profile, but what if I am not allowed to ‘hide’

Important question – how will transparency and ‘unique’ view into researchers’ activities be Slide14

Who is the driver of change?Unclear – I believe – to many

researchers

who

are

the drivers in

these

processes

Librarians

, research managers, management

Is ORCID

something

researchers have asked for? Do most researchers know

about

ORCID?

How

will

it

be

implemented

What

are

the

benefits

for researchers?

Could

it

potentially

become

a more (

broadly

based

) researcher

initiativeSlide15

Challenges and potentials for CRIS (PURE/ORCID)Increased attention to: Researcher focus

–

what

do researcher

need

and

how

can

you

empower

them?How can PURE/ORCID make

life

easier

(

good

existing

examples

:

publications

connected

to

projects

, RSS-

feeds

on

publications

)

Autonomy

,

ownership

,

co-producer,

opportunities for import/exportVisualisation of networks and relations, connecting to

others(new) connections between

between people and between people and

content – recommendations, ’awareness’ of other’s

activies