Carol Anne Meyer discusses unique people identifiers, and CrossRef's plans for ContributorID

1. Identity and the
Scholar
Carol Anne Meyer
Allen Press Seminar
2 April 2009
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2. CrossRef’s Mission
To enable easy identification and
use of trustworthy electronic
content by promoting the
cooperative development and
application of a sustainable
infrastructure
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3. CrossRef’s Mission
To enable easy identification and
use of trustworthy electronic
content by promoting the
cooperative development and
application of a sustainable
infrastructure
Friday, April 3, 2009 3

4. CrossRef’s Mission
To enable easy identification and
use of trustworthy electronic
content by promoting the
cooperative development and
application of a sustainable
infrastructure
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5. CrossRef’s Mission
To enable easy identification and
use of trustworthy electronic
content by promoting the
cooperative development and
application of a sustainable
infrastructure
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6. How we fulfill our mission:
•
! Reference Linking
• CitedBy Linking
• CrossRef Metadata
Services
• CrossCheck
Plagiarism Detection
• New initiatives like
CrossMark and
Contributor ID
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7. Internet Trust Antipattern
6. System touted as
1. Experts build system
non-hierarchical
2. System touted as
5. Regulation
non-hierarchical
restores order
3. Users appear
4. Carp ensues
In Google We Trust? Geoffrey Bilder, Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2006
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8. Three
Identity
Problems
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1. Authentication and Authorization:
How do I get to what I want?
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10. Shibboleth
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11. 2. Name
Variations:
How can I tell
if that’s the
same person?
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12. Carol Anne Meyer
Meyer, Carol Anne
Carol A. Meyer
Meyer, Carol A.
Meyer, C.A.
C.A. Meyer
Carol Meyer
Meyer, Carol
C. Meyer
Meyer, C.
Ms. Meyer
Mrs. Meyer
Carol Meyer Ruben
Mrs. Ruben
Mrs. Ruben-Meyer
Mommy
foodislove
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13. 3. Disambiguation:
How do I know which one?
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14. Not Me :(
Not Me :(
Egosurfing
Not Me :(
Not Me :(
Me ?
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15. Me ! But...
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16. John Smith
John Smith
John Smith
John Smith
John Smith
John Smith
John Smith
John Smith
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17. Li (Lee), Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao,
Zhou, Wu, Xu, Sun, Zhu, Ma, Hu, Guo, Ln, He, Gao, Liang,
Zheng, Luo, Song, Xie, Tang, Han, Cao, Xu, Deng, Xiao,
Nguyen
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18. Jane Doe Jane Bloggs
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19. Cross-ID?
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20. Author ID
Contributor ID
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21. Two uses for unique identifiers
Authentication
and Authorization
Knowledge Discovery
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22. Pyschoceramics
Review
?
cmeyer.crossref.org
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23. Pyschoceramics
DOI
Review
+
Contributor ID
cmeyer.crossref.org
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24. DOI
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25. DOI DOI DOI
DOI
DOI
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26. Profile: Name
Email
Affiliation
Field
etc.
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27. CoAuthors
Reviewer
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29. Where we are...
Photo: Josh Swieringa
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30. Find out more...
• Researcher Identification Primer
www.gen2phen.org/researcher-identification-primer
• CrossTech Blog
http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/
• Gobbledygook, 17 Feb 2009, Martin Fenner’s interview of Geo Bilder
http://network.nature.com/people/mfenner/blog/2009/02/17/interview-
with-georey-bilder
• “Are You Ready to Become a Number?” Martin Enserink, Science 27 March
2009: 1662-1664, DOI: 10.1126/science.323.5922.1662
• “I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number.” Philip Bourne and PE Fink (2008) PLoS
Comput Biol 4(12): e1000247. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000247
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33. A few more things
about CrossRef
Photo : Tim Parkinson
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34. CrossRef Encourages Book Deposits
Photo by digicla
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35. Reciprocal Linking
Photo by Joi Ito
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36. 30% of CrossRef’s failed queries are due to missing backfiles
Photo :Ina Centaur
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37. Working Together to Ensure the Integrity of the Published Record
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38. Please contact me:
Carol Anne Meyer
cmeyer@crossref.org
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