ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

Sydney eScholarship, University LibrarySten Christensen

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ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

› Variant names

- Sten Christensen; S Christensen; SP Christensen ...

› Disambiguation – “Will the real Ross Coleman please stand up”

- Ross Coleman - Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities

- Ross Coleman Director Sydney eScholarship, University of Sydney Library

› Managing multiple identities

› - Thompsons ID; Scopus; email address, Department

Who are you? Untangling the mess.

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ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

› Match and manage data, outputs, grants and improve discoverability

› Increase the accuracy of the HERDC and ERA counts

› Tracking researchers as the move about

› Authority control

Why is this important?

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ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

› National Library of Australia (NLA) project funded by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS)

› The Aim: Adapt the NLA’s People Australia infrastructure so that the research sector could contribute and manage their party records and obtain NLA-issued persistent identifiers for their records about researchers and research organisations.

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The Project

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ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

For researchers the aim was to provide:

› One identifier, issued by the NLA, for each researcher to which all of his or her other identifiers can resolve.

› A public identifier.

› A persistent identifier for us to use

› Example: http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-630330

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Contributed Party

Records (Yellow)

NLA Identity

Record (Blue)

Source: ANDS Bootcamp Australian National University 12 August 2010. B Dewhurst.

ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

How will it work?

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ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

› We need to provide the NLA with data so we can give our researchers persistent id’s

› Some important points to note:

- This is easier said than done.

- There is no single point for data – it is kept in a number of systems that do not effectively talk to each other.

- No one is responsible for this

What do we do now?

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ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

› The Aim: To build a comprehensive record about a researcher, their outputs, affiliations, data and grants.

› It is hoped that this system will be installed next year 2012.

› Watch this space.

Master Data Manager

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