The CASRAI/ORCID Joint Conference was held at the University of Barcelona, May 18-19. About 100 people attended, almost all from Europe
Sponsors included: Plum Analytics, Uber Research, CrossRef, Piirus, Smartsimple, Wellcome trust, Aries, Elsevier and the University of Barcelona
Opening Remarks
Funders spend $1.6 trillion worldwide, annually on research. Important for them to know the impact research is having. (MC: Note the confusion regarding the purpose of research – research is for learning about the physical world. Translation is for moving research results into practice and is not typically done by researchers. Translation is done by care givers (medicine), policy makers, extension (agriculture) and companies through tech transfer (pharmaceuticals, engineering). For funding agencies to hold researchers accountable for impact is quite strange, unless the research specifically is specifically about how to create impact or how to increase impact. Studies to create impact are typically not research – they are contracts to provide training or incentives for making changes related to research findings.)
The Leiden Manifesto in Nature
Goal in Italy for 80% of researchers to have orcid by the end of 2016.
CVN, a national CV format used in Spain
Laure Haak Remarks
Purpose of ORCID
- Provide unique IDs
- Embed IDs into workflows
1.3M people now have ORCID (unknown how many duplicates). 2.1M doi associated with orcid. 200 members. 180K orcid on new publications.
Effort to acknowledge peer review electronically. Casrai, orcid, faculty of 1000.
Per item API is coming.
Orcid will support federated sign on.
Helmsley trust $3M to tide orcid over. Tripling the size of the Orcid staff. Alice Meadows communication.
16 employees. Will add three more trainers. They now have 7 developers.
Casrai -- David Baker
Forms, reports, Apis (machine I/O)
Casrai dictionary is an open blueprint for inbox/outbox contents.
Personnel profiles, impact profiles
Other profiles: research classification, funding results, project info
Organizational IDs. Isni+
Casrai content network in the UK in partnership with Jisc
Contributor roles.
Snowbell metrics. First in Cerif. Analysis by Casrai.
Dataset level metrics. Liaison with altmetrics at NISO
Share has just joined Casrai.
Challenges for the representing scholarship
- Thinking between the boxes
- Patience for collaborative work
- Over complicating the solution
- Discounting neutral governance
- Too narrow definition of standards
We are in the business agreement standards business
Post lunch session. Research Attribution
Laura Paglione. Orcid.
Mark Hahnel. Figshare.
Muriel Swijghuisen. Visiting fellow, Goldsmiths College. Representing humanities and the social sciences.
Berris Charnley. Oxford. Academia has been a closed shop for sometime. We don't recognize leadership, other contributions.
Second post lunch session
Mikael Elabek
Lluis Anglada
Simon Coles
Ricard Wynne, Axis
Use your Orcid to login via Auth2. PloS, FundRef, Axis, 55 publishers, 2,500 journals
Author to submission partner (pre peer review, language issues, collaborative writing). Editage, manuscriptsapp.com
Jats -- journal article tag system.
APC -- open access page charges. Orcid plays a central role. Eight publishers using Orcid in API processing of Orcid in APC
Using Orcid at a small institution instead of a local system (symplectic)
Closing Plenary
The Metric Tide. Coming July 9.
Kaust University. Five year old research university in Saudi Arabia. Evaluating research. 90% of research funded by the university. 5500 publications in five years from 175 faculty.
Day 2
First morning session
Joao Moriera Portugal. Ptcris dspace. OJS. National CV system. Orcid as a hub
Vertigo Ventures. Comprehensive impact taxonomy. Impact Tracker. UK. Type, stakeholder, level, activities, outcome, indicator. Not an open taxonomy.
David Baker. Capacity. Academic. Societal.
Second morning session
Andy Mabbett. Orcid in Wikipedia. Or VIAF. WikiData. WikiSpecies. WikiSource. 206 ORCID. 559,000 VIAF. See wp:orcid
Daryl Grenz. Kaust.edu.sa. Founded 2009. SciVal. All outputs on line. Presentations, dissertations, 5500 papers. Dspace. Orcid. Record advisors and committee members.
Brian Fallon, David graznik. SmartSimple. Linking outputs to investigators. Aggregating data from multiple sources.
Afternoon Session
Ismael Rafols, UPV Valencia
Indicators are possible. Indicators are efficient. But do they lead to good decisions. Indicators biased against domains, countries, languages. See Rafols 2012 research Policy
Closing Keynote
Paul Wouters. Leiden
Four main problems in academic research system
- Funding. Level. Project v Infrastructure. Blue sky v. Focused. Research v. Teaching. 1 size for all?
- Career. PhDs and postdocs as cheap labor. Hyper competition. Emerging separation between teaching and research. Lack of diversity.
- Publication. Hugely successful. Public. Huge money. Publishing for the smallest audience. Quality control.
- Evaluation. Built on publication system. Evaluations are liminal. Micro quality v macro quality. Create accountability.
Increased bibliometrics. Increased self assessment. Alt metrics.
Leiden ranking. CWTS advanced analytics. Rodrigo Costas. Spider graphs for multi factor comparisons
Acumen portfolio.
Code fest
Nine people. Using Orcid API. Three participating remotely. Poor internet connectivity. First and second place winners. Fetching awards from Pure to an Orcid profile. Filter awards by discipline.
Conversations
Christian Herzog, CEO Uber Research. Sophisticated text analysis work
Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust
David Baker, CASRAI
Laure Haak, ORCID
Mark Hahnel, figshare
Catherine Groot, JISC
Ishmael Rafol, UPV Valencia
Andy Mabbett, Wikipedian
Simon Kerridge, University of Kent
Thom Hickey, OCLC
Ben Ryan, UK National Research Council
Brian Lowe, Ontocale
Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director, F1000 Posters
Martin Jagerhorn, Thomson-Reuters
Josh Brown, ORCID
Simon Coles, University of Southhampton
