Identity and the Scholar

Carol Anne MeyerAllen Press Seminar

2 April 2009

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CrossRef’s Mission

To enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content by promoting the cooperative development and application of a sustainable infrastructure

3Friday, April 3, 2009

CrossRef’s Mission

To enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content by promoting the cooperative development and application of a sustainable infrastructure

4Friday, April 3, 2009

CrossRef’s Mission

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1. Experts build system

Internet Trust Antipattern

In Google We Trust? Geoffrey Bilder, Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2006

3. Users appear

2. System touted as non-hierarchical

4. Carp ensues

5. Regulation restores order

6. System touted as non-hierarchical

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Three Identity Problems

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1. Authentication and Authorization:How do I get to what I want?

Uname/Passwords:

bank: 12345

retirement: 12345cam

editorial system: mom’s

birthday

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Shibboleth

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2. Name Variations:

How can I tell if that’s the

same person?

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Carol Anne MeyerMeyer, Carol Anne

Carol A. MeyerMeyer, Carol A.

Meyer, C.A.C.A. MeyerCarol MeyerMeyer, Carol

C. MeyerMeyer, C.Ms. MeyerMrs. Meyer

Carol Meyer RubenMrs. Ruben

Mrs. Ruben-MeyerMommy

foodislove

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3. Disambiguation: How do I know which one?

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Not Me :(

Me ?

Not Me :(

Not Me :(

Not Me :(

Egosurfing

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Me ! But...

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John SmithJohn SmithJohn SmithJohn SmithJohn SmithJohn SmithJohn SmithJohn Smith

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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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Jane Doe Jane Bloggs

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Cross-ID?

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Contributor ID

Author ID

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Two uses for unique identifiers

Knowledge Discovery

Authentication and Authorization

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PyschoceramicsReview

?

cmeyer.crossref.org

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PyschoceramicsReview DOI

+

Contributor IDcmeyer.crossref.org

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DOI

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DOIDOI

DOIDOIDOI

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NameEmailAffiliationField

Profile:

etc.

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CoAuthors

Reviewer

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Where we are...

Photo: Josh Swieringa

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Find out more...

• Researcher Identification Primer www.gen2phen.org/researcher-identification-primer

• CrossTech Bloghttp://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/

• Gobbledygook, 17 Feb 2009, Martin Fenner’s interview of Geoff Bilderhttp://network.nature.com/people/mfenner/blog/2009/02/17/interview-with-geoffrey-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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Working Together to Ensure the Integrity of the Published Record

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Please contact me:Carol Anne Meyer

cmeyer@crossref.org

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