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Researchers' Identity Management in the 21st Century Networked World

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Researchers' Identity Management in the 21st Century Networked World
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A Pilot / Case Study of AUC Faculty Publications
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This project will explore how American University in Cairo (AUC) faculty members distributed their scholarly and creative works, and how their names are identified in author identifier systems and/or on the Web. The goal is to explore how best to present their data as linked data. The project will use the AUC faculty’s names listed in AUC Faculty Publications: 2012 Calendar Year. Their names will be used to search in author identifier systems to answer; 1. If they are registered on these sites, 2. if their names are consistent, or with variants and how the variants are handled, 3. what metadata are included, 4. sources of data, and 5. other relevant data. The systems to be checked, but not limited to, are 1. ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID), 2. ResearcherID, 3. Scopus Author Identifier, 4. arXiv Author ID, 5. eRA Commons Username, 6. AuthorClaim, 7. OpenID, 8. ISNI, 9. Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF), 10. Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), and 11. Google Scholar. The presentation will include the overview of these systems. The data analysis and discussion will shed light on: 1. how some author identifier systems fail to represent some faculty members; 2. how the linked data model, such as BIBFRAME, can be used to better represent them and to increase their visibility on the Web, and 3. the collaborative roles for librarians and faculty members to contribute data into these systems. 4. The presentation will conclude with the discussion on the faculty’s potential use of the data to demonstrate the impact of their scholarly and creative works.
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Good afternoon and thank you for having me here and I want to say hi to friends from the Middle East so this is like muscle care so this is getting into the evening. I kind of follow the thread of my presentation will be less of a
programming part it would be from more from the user experience and also from the qualitative even though I love data with some descriptive data it's very I promised for a lot of data in my abstract but family application and I
just came back from standing in to organize a conference in Abu Dhabi giving like one month to finish doing that so in November earlier so I'm sorry that this will be less data but I hope I that it will be informative nonetheless. So
overview my question has to do with really much of kind of to see where our
researchers live we ask a lot of student other people where do they live in terms of on the web so this is the same idea where our users who are researchers spend their time contributing paper and such thing it's
also this is an overview so I'm going to look at some overview and looking at the population and I take a smaller sample set so that I can really get acquainted with the with the qualitative data from the we have
each year we have a faculty publication that the Office of Research has produced the latest in 2012 because we have a lot of admin change and I have some so that's the latest data I have so far and I also select only a
few research ID system but balancing between the professional services like LC name authority VIAF and ISNI and then the other side is a what people have been self-register system such as research gate and Google scholars so
these are very much at the preliminary findings because I just look for what kind of stories and these data telling me I'm not interested in so much of the quantitative but looking at the qualitative side of thing
looking at the implication filling data environment and also what else that I need to look for so I have more question our dispersed data set then I going in so that will be shared with you too so why is this topic this is some of my research interest early on I look at projects that
mapping for data visualization presenting what interconnected mapping the knowledge domain I also had some practical work using his side which is
software that using web of science data to extract to see how the genealogy research seminar papers and mapping the research domain and I use that to support a practical project for human trafficking research for our researcher
in in the u.s. why I was working for six years there my current interest really is this last year is my first time to come to sweet and a lot had happened since then when I went back from sweet 14 in born I wrote a
paper for the admin to to cut a map the planning for the future the libraries in the big frame a link data context I have three conference presentation one for our army counted work in just the American University system in Middle
East and Europe and also I went to Abu Dhabi to organize a conference for innovative user group which is a library system you circle and we discuss the thing data there as well and this paper is the third one so sweet 14
really have this much impact for my work now so then the pilot study really I just say okay what's going on with our researcher how do they distribute their data how do they share their scholarly publication and creative works and hand and names identify in different author identifier
system on the web so the goal is to explore how best to present their data as linked data so the population and the AC faculty who have publication in the records and this can be conference paper creative work
books and journals or anything that are publishable. The sample set I used this also this publication for that 2012 calendar year so I have 55 faculty in
this data set and I select using the random sampling to 45 so making sure
that they cut across different discipline and school but with a smaller department I can include them all for ten faculty so I have a look at different site for this not everything that I listed in the abstract I want
to get into to look at how their names are presented also whatever data that comes to my reading that would inform me so it's very open and no hypothesis nothing it's just really totally exploratory at this point so my notes on the data gathering and analysis this book alone is only 2012
so it's limited to that year publication when I went out to Google Scholar or other things I need to look at the whole research profile so I
ended up using the faculty profile in most university if you are required to publish and no report there's something called digital master which is a platform that you submit your citation and different things so you see profile
is using the same tool it's called the repertoire so we every year we have to submit our publication and update CV so that's where I have to look because the 2012 alone is not enough to identify any name in in the registry
so I use different things the names the profile photos even because I know this faculty by face we live in a close-knit community and the institution also because they move around we have a high mobility group here publication
and other CV information and that's a limitation of the profile once you leave the campus that profile would be down so this would be the implication for web archiving as well and the data is not open because this is from the database and it's also limit to learn English language publication
because there you see language is official language is English so I look at two tiers of service professional service and the LC name authority virtual international authority find the international standard of national
identity and name identity and Google Scholar so because these are better with the multilingual data the services does service on the other hand scholar themselves use English for their profile even though they may have other
publication in different language and I limit to open data so anything like Google or any search engine can find the authors are also identify themselves as in romanized name so if they have Arabic name I learned enough Arabic to write find that in the system but not but they're not
going to publish that in Arabic on the professional side so I want to
Congress authority is an item at virtual international authority fire isn't I through VIF research gate and also Google Scholar the last two other one that researcher which is third himself now I'll see if you are librarian you
are familiar with this but I can't assume that for everybody so these are the system that is there with one form of heading with reference from the other form using research and publication as a way to reference the
name so for example this is a very short one professor and Gilga share she has only one reference to her book so in her own profile you get across
longer we have is a bit better because it does integrate national
libraries around the world and it's a single or OCLC hosted name authority services so you can see that these are we have contributors from around the
world the other one I look at we have already linked with the international standard name identifier so in we have if you search in in we
have you already will find the ISNI in it too now the other system so those
are the one that the professional create for the researcher now I found a lot of my researcher live here in research get it's a new system found in
2008 they say this is for research scientists for scientists and it is right now in Germany is found by the physician doctor Dr. Elliot Mandish and also Dr. Soren Halfmeyer right now it is not an open access you can see from
Google but to get the paper you have to sign in to get that chairing going with your colleagues but it's free but not innocent I put that in there because Bill Gates and other company invest in research gate because they can
get the research data for their own use so this is like a lot of money I think going into research gate so for example you can see why the user will like this I have the professor Clement Henry he has to profile one as
an emeritus in Texas one for AUC and he has one of the high ranking score his citation score is much higher than the others so and it's not by the age he's retired but he has like in everything in LC Authority in real in
research getting Google Scholar so he really established himself and he got a lot of followers and you can see that that's a social media function and so on the analytics so if you like to feel good about your research products
and project this is something you get update research gets sent me too many emails I used to have my paper in digital commons I get it tells me how many get download who download and from different countries so those are nice to have but research get report almost every interaction you have with
anyone but it is this social network function that make this to be attractive and give the incentive to people to deficit their data in this system so
also I have to proclaim in here claiming has to double identity just
to make sure that you understand AUC is not a research institute but it has research lab and high profile it has about six thousand five hundred in the enrollment and also grab and with the p.s. some p.s. these new so it's not
really high ranking but that's enough of the faculty who get into LC and so I try to get to data and conclusion and my time so the faculty has 40% US
nationality 40 Egypt 40% Egyptians and roughly 20% international the language of instruction is English these are my data and in the sample we have the
school the big the two big schools are humanity and social science it has more presence in this system and the other one is the school of science and engineering but you can see that when you compare this data when they have
this across the board so the random sampling should be a representative so we have performed the highest so the 55 faculty they have more presence in second in LC and if and see five but between research getting Google
Scholar research get has more presence and is in I is the third one so I have to say okay so what's happening here so we have to separate two category professional service by LC and we have and also the cell which
is the service the perfect other across they're gonna have the present across the board but the discipline will also make a difference in in the humanity and social science they are better present in LC so has has 15
and the engineering school has only three but they are at high level in we have because of the conference proceeding so publication type is also but some of us are not perfect author we may have book chapters so these are not
going to be presents because in the in the OCLC record we are not included as a main author or additional also this some of these are some example so some
implication from my finding so we had to do some local record enhancement for our faculty who has book chapters encourage others to also register for something like or CID to create their own profile even in Mandarin or
Google Scholar or research game the other two ends mobility and mobility if someone pass away or move away the profile at the institution also be wipe away so this way if we have another remedy so in link data to challenge how
do we map the linkage among the size for on the one hand for professional service and the other hand for the self-register service I want to point out that we invest a lot I mean OCLC and folks in VF and I assume I had
done a great job linking and creating this linkage but researchers also live and have more fulfilled profile in self-register service so the pros of self-register service is they can create their own research identity
their one is of use they like that automatic update who interact with them email and also uses statistics list to put that in the 10-year ranking and review and it was free they like it better too and they also like the
citation metric and graphs and they also want to protect their work so it has to be somewhat closer research gate it's good that it it shows Google to see okay these are the citation but not the paper itself you had to register to share the paper the social network function they love that
collaboration and citation linkage but the con part is that these are English language dominant we have professor who published in Roman script and also in Arabic script so we need to look into those issue incomplete data because
they don't update sometime and publication lists are not inclusive so they may or may not be updating their own site over time so I have a lot more work to do so I go back to my data and include more if my researcher are
not in any of these system and they in acts IV in other in other side so I need to look for more of those the name variants type publication 10-year ranking and all of those and include more from different faculty but that's
also an implication we are with Amical consortium of 25 countries of the American liberal arts institution so if we can create some kind link data platform to link all of Amical institution together we can really
create much better collaboration so this is a link data elements that these research hopefully can take it so my conclusion is researcher in the 21st
century tend to have more scattered identities at their local institution and other professional and self-register services the challenge as we go forward to link data model is how to maintain the multiple identity for each researcher cross-link the data and provide access to the ID system
across the board not only to the more horrific writers and creators. Two more works so I did link try to look at Karen Smith-Yoshimura research from OCLC on research identities and that's also a good article on the relationship
between ASNI and VF by Anjali and her team so I want to add that thank you very much I'm sorry I'm between you and the coffee breaks