2023
Herb, Ulrich
14.02.2023, (Presentation delivered within the session "Risks and Trust in Pursuit of a Well-functioning Persistent Identifier Infrastructure for Research" within the virtual NISO Plus 2023 Conference.).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Diamond Open Access Publishers, Persistent identifier, PID, PID implementation, PID landscape, Publishers, Research funders, Research Funding Organizations, Research Performing Organisations, RFOs, RPOs
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de Castro, Pablo
The (Currently) Fragmented PID Landscape: An Overview Presentation
14.02.2023, (Presentation delivered within the session "Risks and Trust in Pursuit of a Well-functioning Persistent Identifier Infrastructure for Research" within the virtual NISO Plus 2023 Conference.).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Fragmentation, Persistent identifier, PID, PID implementation, PID landscape
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abstract = {This NISO Plus 2023 talk addresses various issues around the fragmentation of the current persistent identifier landscape as identified in the course of the study on PIDs commissioned by the Knowledge Exchange. The seven case studies produced in the course of this work are presented showing the various types of PIDs addressed in each of them. Three different aspects are then examined under the common theme of PID landscape fragmentation: the dichotomy between 'technical' and 'admin-oriented' PIDs, the coexistence of competing technical solutions for specific PIDs and the ambiguous concept of 'community' in the expression "community-driven PID". Two main recommendations are finally provided to address the current fragmentation in the PID landscape.},
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Herb, Ulrich
PIDs - Risiken, problematische Implementierungen, Empfehlungen Presentation
TAPIR-Workshop "TeilAutomatisiertes Persistent-Identifier-basiertes Reporting", 06.02.2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Failed PIDs, Fragmentierung, Persistent identifier, PID, PID implementation, PID landscape
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abstract = {Der Vortrag beschreibt eine von scidecode science consulting im Auftrag von Knowledge Exchange (KE) durchgeführte Studie über Risiken und Vertrauen als (Miss-)Erfolgsfaktoren für die Ausgestaltung einer funktionalen Persistent Identifier (PID) Infrastruktur. Er beleuchtet primär Risiken für die PID Landschaft und präsentiert eine Selektion am Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung des PID Systems, die sich dezidiert an Forschungsförderer und Forschungsorganisationen richten.
Der Vortrag wurde gehalten anlässlich des TAPIR-Workshop "TeilAutomatisiertes Persistent-Identifier-basiertes Reporting" vom 6. Februar 2023. Der Bericht zur Studie "Building the plane as we fly it: the promise of Persistent Identifiers" ist verfügbar unter https://zenodo.org/record/7258286
The presentation describes a study conducted by scidecode science consulting on behalf of Knowledge Exchange (KE) on risks and trust as factors of success or failure for the design of a functional Persistent Identifier (PID) infrastructure. It primarily highlights risks for the PID landscape and presents a selection of recommendations for the development of the PID system, which are aimed specifically at research funders and research organisations.
The presentation was given at the TAPIR workshop "Partially Automated Persistent Identifier-based Reporting" on 6 February 2023. The report on the study ""Building the plane as we fly it: the promise of Persistent Identifiers" is available at https://zenodo.org/record/7258286},
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Der Vortrag wurde gehalten anlässlich des TAPIR-Workshop "TeilAutomatisiertes Persistent-Identifier-basiertes Reporting" vom 6. Februar 2023. Der Bericht zur Studie "Building the plane as we fly it: the promise of Persistent Identifiers" ist verfügbar unter https://zenodo.org/record/7258286
The presentation describes a study conducted by scidecode science consulting on behalf of Knowledge Exchange (KE) on risks and trust as factors of success or failure for the design of a functional Persistent Identifier (PID) infrastructure. It primarily highlights risks for the PID landscape and presents a selection of recommendations for the development of the PID system, which are aimed specifically at research funders and research organisations.
The presentation was given at the TAPIR workshop "Partially Automated Persistent Identifier-based Reporting" on 6 February 2023. The report on the study ""Building the plane as we fly it: the promise of Persistent Identifiers" is available at https://zenodo.org/record/7258286
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Building the plane as we fly it: the promise of Persistent Identifiers Technical Report
Knowledge Exchange 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Persistent identifier, PID, PID implementation, PID landscape, Report
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The report examines the PID landscape and provides a detailed look at what can go wrong with an unreliable PID service. In addition, a series of recommendations aimed at each stakeholder group are presented.
Seven complementary case studies accompany the report, helping provide a deeper insight into specific areas of activity, workflows and stakeholders within this wider PID landscape. Each can be accessed through the report.
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Adoption of the DAI in the Netherlands and subsequent superseding by ORCID/ISNI Technical Manual
Knowledge Exchange 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Case Study, DAI, Dutch Digital Author Identifier, Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape
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The case study looks at the Dutch Digital Author Identifier (DAI). It explains the importance of contingency management and community involvement to successfully address risks and trust issues for a well-functioning PID landscape.
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The case study looks at the Dutch Digital Author Identifier (DAI). It explains the importance of contingency management and community involvement to successfully address risks and trust issues for a well-functioning PID landscape.
The report, Building the Plane as We Fly It: the Promise of Persistent Identifiers, and remaining complementary case studies have also been published.
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
RePEc Author Service: An established community-driven PID Technical Manual
Knowledge Exchange 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Case Study, Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape, RAS, RePEc, RePEc Author Service
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The case study looks at the RePEc Author Service (RAS), an independent community owned and run DAI service within Economics. Established before ORCID emerged, RAS survives on the basis of low running costs, various sponsors, and volunteers. It demonstrates how community-trust, accepting uncertainty around sustainability and governance, can help a PID service run for a long time.
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The report, Building the Plane as We Fly It: the Promise of Persistent Identifiers, and remaining complementary case studies have also been published.
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Failed PIDs and unreliable PID implementations Technical Manual
Knowledge Exchange 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Case Study, Failed PIDs, Persistent Identifier, PID, PID implementation, PID landscape
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The case study explores what happens if organizations providing and managing PIDs are unreliable. It examines issues around risk and trust, the importance of a committed organization and contingency plans.
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The case study explores what happens if organizations providing and managing PIDs are unreliable. It examines issues around risk and trust, the importance of a committed organization and contingency plans.
The report, Building the Plane as We Fly It: the Promise of Persistent Identifiers, and remaining complementary case studies have also been published.
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
IGSN - building and expanding a community-driven PID system Technical Manual
Knowledge Exchange 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Case Study, IGSN, International Generic Sample Number, Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape
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The case study explores the International Generic Sample Number (IGSN) and its development. It aims to help explain how the PID system itself develops by bringing up new PIDs through community services.
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The interviews conducted give further insight into how IGSN helps the research community.
The report, Building the Plane as We Fly It: the Promise of Persistent Identifiers, and remaining complementary case studies have also been published.
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Persistent identifiers for research instruments and facilities: an emerging PID domain in need of coordination Technical Manual
Knowledge Exchange 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Case Study, Conferences, ConfID, Facilities, PID, PID implementation, PID landscape, Research Instruments
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The case study aims to explore the challenges faced and the opportunities offered by the gradual implementation of emerging PIDs. The main focus of this case study is on persistent identifiers for research instruments and facilities but the analysis addresses emerging PID infrastructure and therefore has links to other PID areas like persistent identifiers for conferences (ConfIDs) and – to a certain extent – to PIDs addressed in other case studies such as IGSNs for samples and ROR IDs for organisational identifiers.
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The report, Building the Plane as We Fly It: the Promise of Persistent Identifiers, and remaining complementary case studies have also been published.
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
The gradual implementation of organisational identifiers (OrgIDs) Technical Manual
Knowledge Exchange 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Case Study, Organisational Identifiers, OrgIDs, Persistent identifier, PID, PID implementation, PID landscape, Ringgold, ROR
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This case study provides insight into the process that led to selecting the Research Organization Registry (ROR) – initially based on the Digital Science Global Research Identifier (GRID) database – as the default international framework for the provision of OrgIDs. Insight into the challenges triggered by current developments are also addressed.
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This case study provides insight into the process that led to selecting the Research Organization Registry (ROR) – initially based on the Digital Science Global Research Identifier (GRID) database – as the default international framework for the provision of OrgIDs. Insight into the challenges triggered by current developments are also addressed.
The report, Building the Plane as We Fly It: the Promise of Persistent Identifiers, and remaining complementary case studies have also been published.
2022
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
The role of research funders in the consolidation of the PID landscape Technical Manual
Knowledge Exchange 2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Case Study, Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape, Research funders, Research Funding Organizations
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de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Some reflections on the current PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues Journal Article
In: Procedia Computer Science, vol. 211, pp. 28-35, 2022, ISSN: 18770509, (Part of special issue: 15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape
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de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Some reflections on the current PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues Presentation
12.05.2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape, Research Information Management
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abstract = {The Knowledge Exchange (KE) is a European partnership formed by six key national organisations tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research. These six organisations are CSC in Finland, CNRS in France, DeiC in Denmark, DFG in Germany, Jisc in the UK and SURF in the Netherlands. One specific area of activity for KE – as part of its collaborative work to support the development of digital infrastructures to enable open science – is the analysis of the quickly evolving persistent identifier (PID) landscape, and in particular the issues around risks and trust in pursuit of a wellfunctioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and their associated infrastructures are considered to be of vital importance for accountability, reproducibility and credibility of today’s research. PIDs foster transparency in methods and scientific output, identification and referencing of scientific outputs, and thus contribute to Open Science and Open Scholarship. Back in June 2021 the KE Task & Finish Group for PIDs Risk and Trust (see its composition here) commissioned an external study to explore the risks and trust issues associated with the current PID landscape. The winning bid, issued by a team of four consultants in Germany, France and the UK under the banner of Scidecode Science Consulting, included two members of the euroCRIS Board among the experts to carry out this analysis. An early project presentation was delivered on Dec 8th, 2021 within a webinar on PID implementation organised by ORCID and DataCite for the Research Information Management community in Poland. In this short presentation the project methodology, objectives and time schedule were briefly described. The project work – which will be fairly advanced by the time the CRIS2022 conference is held, hence the usefulness of having the opportunity to present its early findings for a discussion with the RIM community – is to be based on a number of interviews with PID experts in (mostly) the six KE member countries. The interviewees will represent the six main PID roles identified in the scoping document drafted by the KE T&F Group under the title "Risk and trust in pursuit of a well-functioning PID infrastructure for research" (these are PID Authority, PID Service Provider, PID Manager, PID Owner and PID User). Source: OpenAIRE “What is a Persistent Identifier?”, https://www.openaire.eu/what-is-a-persistent-identifier. Image licence CC BY 4.0 At the timmid-– most interviews have already been conducted as part of e of writing January 2022 the first stage of this project. Both well established PIDs such as DOIs, ORCID and ROR and other, emerging infrastructure for persistent identification (such as confe rence IDs or identifiers for research equipment and facilities) have been addressed in these conversations with the experts. Other more decentralised IDs such as handleIDs, URNs, ARKs or IGSNs have also been covered, providing a thorough insight into a rat her complex current PID landscape. A literature study was carried out by the project team prior to the interviews examining the issues of risk and trust, whose results were used to draft a default template for the questions to be asked to the experts. A number of case studies will be produced summarising some of the findings of these interviews, followed by a report that will address the most pressing issues related to risk and trust in the current PID landscape. As per the project timeline, a collecti on of case studies in PID implementation and operation should be close to completion by the time the CRIS2022 conference takes place. The proposed presentation at the conference aims to introduce these case studies and to provide a summary snapshot of the current PID landscape and its relevance for related initiatives like the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Emphasis will also be made on the key role of PIDs in Research Information Management Systems.},
keywords = {Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape, Research Information Management},
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tppubtype = {presentation}
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2020
Herb, Ulrich; Geith, Uwe
Kriterien der qualitativen Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen: Befunde aus dem Projekt visOA Journal Article
In: Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, vol. 71, iss. 2-3, pp. 77–85, 2020, ISSN: 1619-4292, 1434-4653, (Publisher: De Gruyter Saur Section: Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Closed Access, Open Access, Qualität, Qualitätskriterien, Wissenschaftliche Publikationen, Wissenschaftliches Publizieren
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title = {Kriterien der qualitativen Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen: Befunde aus dem Projekt visOA},
author = { Ulrich Herb and Uwe Geith},
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doi = {10.1515/iwp-2020-2074},
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year = {2020},
date = {2020-04-01},
urldate = {2020-04-01},
journal = {Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis},
volume = {71},
issue = {2-3},
pages = {77--85},
abstract = {Dieser Beitrag beschreibt a) die Ergebnisse einer Literaturstudie zur qualitativen Wahrnehmung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen, b) die Konstruktion eines daraus abgeleiteten Kriterienkatalogs zur Wahrnehmung der Qualität wissenschaftlicher Publikationen sowie c) der Überprüfung dieses Katalogs in qualitativen Interviews mit Wissenschaflterinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus dem Fachspektrum Chemie, Physik, Biologie, Materialwissenschaft und Engineering. Es zeigte sich, dass die Wahrnehmung von Qualität auf äußerlichen und von außen herangetragenen Faktoren, inhaltlichen / semantischen Faktoren und sprachlichen, syntaktischen sowie strukturellen Faktoren beruht.},
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2017
Herb, Ulrich
In: Weingart, Peter; Taubert, Niels (Ed.): The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation, African Minds, pp. 135-164, African Minds, Capetown, South Africa, 2017, ISBN: 78-1-928331-53-7.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Open Access, Open science, Scientific Publications, Scientific Publishing
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title = {Recommendations, Statements, Declarations and Activities of Science Policy Actors on Shaping the Scholarly Communication System},
author = {Ulrich Herb},
editor = {Peter Weingart and Niels Taubert},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1035734},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1035734},
isbn = {78-1-928331-53-7},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-10-01},
urldate = {2017-10-01},
booktitle = {The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation, African Minds},
pages = {135-164},
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address = { Capetown, South Africa},
abstract = {During the past ten years, different actors from the science policy sector have made different statements on the future design of the scholarly communication system. Moreover, they have been active in trying to change the design. The goal of this text is to give an overview of the different forms of those statements for Germany, the United States and Europe, and to summarise the content of the statements in the form of a synopsis in which the major similarities and differences can be fleshed out. In addition, experts have to determine the most important fields of activity and describe concrete measures and activities. The object of this chapter is to discuss the scholarly communication system through which research results are disseminated and exchanged within the scientific community.},
keywords = {Open Access, Open science, Scientific Publications, Scientific Publishing},
pubstate = {published},
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}
2016
Herb, Ulrich
In: Weingart, Peter; Taubert, Niels (Ed.): Wissenschaftliches Publizieren, pp. 147-177, De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-11-044811-5.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Open Access, Open science, Wissenschaftliche Publikationen, Wissenschaftliches Publizieren
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title = {Empfehlungen, Stellungnahmen, Deklarationen und Aktivitäten wissenschaftspolitischer Akteure zur Gestaltung des wissenschaftlichen Kommunikationssystems},
author = { Ulrich Herb},
editor = { Peter Weingart and Niels Taubert},
url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110448115-006/html},
doi = {10.1515/9783110448115-006},
isbn = {978-3-11-044811-5},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Wissenschaftliches Publizieren},
pages = {147-177},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
address = {Berlin, Boston},
abstract = {In den vergangenen zehn Jahren haben sich unterschiedliche wissenschaftspolitische Akteure in verschiedener Weise zur künftigen Gestalt des wissenschaftlichen Kommunikationssystems geäußert und Aktivitäten unternommen, mit denen konkrete Gestaltungsabsichten verfolgt werden. Ziel dieses Textes ist es, für Deutschland, die USA und die europäische Ebene eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Formen der Äußerungen zu gewinnen und ihren deren Inhalt in Form einer Synopse zusammen-zutragen, indem wesentliche Übereinstimmungen und Differenzen herausgearbeitet werden. Daneben soll die Expertise die wichtigsten Aktivitätsfelder bestimmen und konkrete Maßnahmen und Aktivitäten beschreiben, die beispielhaft für bestimmte Aktivitätsfelder stehen. Objekt ist das wissenschaftliche Kommunikationssystem als der Kommunikationszusammenhang, durch den Forschungsergebnisse innerhalb der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft mitgeteilt und verbreitet werden.},
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}