Cambridge MA 13 August 2015 The Complexity of Scholar Affiliation in ISNI and VIVO Karen SmithYoshimura OCLC Research Jing Wang Johns Hopkins University Janifer Gatenby OCLCLeiden Organizational IDs ID: 161510
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2015 VIVO ConferenceCambridge, MA 13 August 2015
The Complexity of Scholar Affiliation in ISNI and VIVO
Karen Smith-Yoshimura
OCLC Research
Jing Wang
Johns Hopkins University
Janifer Gatenby
OCLC-LeidenSlide2
Organizational IDs: U
se cases2
Institutions want to track
all their scholarly output
Track research groups which may comprise staff from multiple institutionsNational assessments reporting
Track funding and validate affiliation Disambiguate researchers’ names by affiliationCorrectly identify researchers’ affiliations in publicationsMany institutions unaware they already have an identifier assignedSlide3
Examples:
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006591
isni.org/
isni
/0000000123412786
http://viaf.org/viaf/13426768wikidata.org/wiki/Q49108Identify:
A unique, persistent and public URI associated with a digital object and resolvable globally over networks via specific protocols that is unambiguous to use, find and identify the resource.Identifier: a definitionSlide4
OCLC Research Task Force on Organisations in ISNI
Karen
Smith-Yoshimura
OCLC Research (leader)
Grace Agnew Rutgers University
Christopher Brown JISC (UK) (CASRAI)Kate Byrne University of New South WalesMatt Carruthers University of Michigan Naun Chew Cornell UniversityPeter Fletcher UCLA
Janifer Gatenby OCLC Leiden (ISNI Assignment Agency)Stephen Hearn University of MinnesotaXiaoli Li University of California, DavisMarina Muilwijk University of UtrechtBoaz Nadav-Manes OCLC
Leiden (ISNI Assignment Agency) Roderick Sadler La Trobe UniversityJohn Riemer UCLAJing Wang Johns Hopkins UniversityGlen Wiley University
of Miami
Kayla
Willey
Brigham
Young
University
With input from Andrew MacEwan, British Library and Anila Angjeli,
Bibliothèque
nationale
de France
Examined 13 use cases; producing sample records for each use case
23 recommendations for the system, for the ISNI-IA, for users
Search guidelines for organisations to be produced
Outreach documentSlide5
They merge, they split
They acquire/are acquiredThey can have multiple departments, schools
Have hierarchies that may change over timeMay have multiple hierarchies
Branches in multiple locations or countriesOften unclear when a name change represents a new organization
Different stakeholders’ perspectives
Special challenges with organizationsGSlide6
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La Trobe University Restructuring
5 faculties:
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Faculty of EducationFaculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesFaculty of Science, Technology and Engineering2 colleges:College of Science, Health and EngineeringCollege of Arts, Social Sciences and CommerceSlide7Slide8
Libraries
Text Rights
Music Rights
Trade Sources
Encyclopaedias
Researchers &
Professional
Granting organisations Professional Societies Article databases Theses databasescross-domain
bridging-domains
Archives and MuseumsSlide9
Universal in scope
Public domain focusMultiple linksHub ID – striving to link to all significant existing IDsLinking among identities, e.g. affiliations, organisation hierarchies
Linking to created resourcesThird party input and curationOrganisations can manage their own data, e.g. La Trobe
ISNIs are disseminating links and connections beyond science databases towards publishers and research information systemsSlide10
ISNI for Organizational Identifiers
ORCID uses ISNIs for organizations
Links to and from Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
Links in Wikidata
480,503 organizations have public ISNIsSlide11
Sustainable Quality Management
ISNI Database
Harvested, Batch loaded; Online contributions
Algorithms
Notifications
Data fixingSamplingData PolicyEnrichmentCorrectionCuration
Crowd sourcing
Members and Registration AgenciesSlide12
ISNI Input
Assignment Request
Match
No match
Possible match
Assigned ISNI
Provisional
Unique / Rich?Public – Web, SRU API, End user input, Linked dataMember and Quality Team viewBatch loadOnline web formAtom Pub APISlide13
ISNI Maintenance Flow
ISNI Record(source on each element)
New source
contribution
End User enrichment or change request
All sources on recordNotificationsNew sources
New assignmentsMerges SplitsError notificationsStatistics Slide14
Co-author, pseudonym…..
GisMemberOf,isAffiliatedWith
…..GhasMember,hasEmployee…..GGhasUnit,supersedesacquiredhostsisPartneredWith
…..Links among identitiesSlide15
ISNIs for Research projects
Research project
G
G
G
G
m
Links to member researchersLinks to supporting institutionsLINKSAmong Identities
Links to funders Slide16
ISNI
Relationships
for Research projectsSlide17
Augment relationship types and display
Indicate organization’s own preferred form of name
Publish ISNI ontologyAdd Turtle, N-Triple, JSON-LD as linked data options
Create end user input form for organizations
Create ISNIs for Organizations outreach document Engage organizations to maintain their public identity
Encourage organizations to collaborate with ISNI Quality Team to diffuse correctionsRecommendations for ISNISlide18
What level of granularity is needed?
Who has responsibility to indicate “preferred name” for an institution? How to better reconcile name variants and related identities from different perspectives?
How to encourage use of organizational ISNIs by publishers?
How to encourage services to build on organizational ISNIs, or crosswalk to them?
IssuesSlide19
Multiple
source of records with various data quality
Enterprise Directory
Human Resource
Digital Measure
Library - Local authority records No consistent update or registry processesUsed by ETD, IR, and ERP systemsLocal organizational data maintenance issuesSlide20
W3C organization ontology
org:organization subclass of foaf:agent
Organization, Post, Site, ChangeEvent
organization classification: skos:Concept
vivo-isf ontologyfoaf:organization, vivo:position, vcard (with address)
vivo organization subclasses (organization types)ISNI data elementsclass: organization, person, source, locationISNI organization typesName use attributesOrganization classes and propertiesSlide21
Organizational relationship mapping
W3C org ontology properties
ISNI org_org relationship
vivo-isf organization properties
hierarchical
hasUnit / unitOf
hasUnit /isUnitOfhas sub-Organization / organization within - faux property of "hasPart / partOf" (obo: BFO-0000051/50)hasSubOrganization / subOrganizationOftemporalorginalOrganization / resultingOrganizationsupersedes / isSupersededByhorizontallinkedToisAffiliatedWith (e.g. an institution, a band), isRelatedTo
vivo:affiliatedOrganizationsee also fromrolesmemberOfacquire, host, govern, partnerbearer of (obo:RO_0000053/52)has role (obo:RO_0000087)Slide22
What
few things must be the same so that everything else can be different?
Can the W3C org
ontology serve as the baseline for all?
Have you looked at how your organization is represented in ISNI?
isni.org/searchSlide23
Thank you!
Karen Smith-Yoshimura2015 VIVO Conference
Cambridge, MA 13 August 2015
Jing Wang
jwang40@jhu.edu
smithyok@oclc.org@KarenS
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Y
Janifer
Gatenby
Janifer.Gatenby@oclc.org