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Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications
Society for Scholarly Publishing2 June 2016Christine Orr
INSTITUTIONAL IDENTIFIERS: One piece of the new infrastructure
Who (or what) is Ringgold?• Ringgold is a small, for-profit, database
publisher• 2003: Identify Database & the Ringgold ID are
born out of a project to disambiguate the institutional subscribers to OUP journals• This was not a unique problem• Over the past decade, Ringgold has met the
requirements necessary to create a trusted PID to identify institutions.
• Sustainability - has to be there• Currency - must be maintained• Governance - rules matter• Extensible - ability to add new records
People
PlacesThings
Is the Ringgold ID a standard?Not an ISO standard….but: Interoperable with and mapped to standards & IDs (ISNI, IPEDs, etc.)Widely accepted: 24 of the top 25 academic publishers plus intermediaries, NGOs, and governments - more than 70 organizations in our space - have implemented the Ringgold ID.
• Copyright Clearance Center• ScholarOne Manuscripts• ORCID• Elsevier• Taylor & Francis• OUP• AAAS/Science• Wolters Kluwer• Royal Society of Chemistry• Kudos• IET
• NEJM/Massachusetts Medical Soc• Portuguese govt: Foundation for
Science and Technology• Aries Editorial Manager• ProQuest• PLoS• Am Chemical Society• Am Psychological Assn• SAO/NASA Astrophysical Data
System
Institutions Play Multiple Roles
Affiliations of Individuals:
• Authors• Editors• Reviewers• Past & present• Educational• Employment• Volunteer
Functions in Scholarly Comms:
• Licensee• Funder of research• Publisher• Payer of APC• Member institutions• Intermediaries• Operator of CRIS
systems
Identifying Institutions: How hard can it be?
• Hierarchies: Subsidiary components & complex relationships
…also• Who is responsible for the
entity’s record?• There are different types
which are crucial to understanding them
• There are more of them than first meets the eye?
420K institutions in scholarly communications
• Global, multi-sector coverage• Extensible: grows to meet the
needs of those who have adopted it• Built by hand• Governed & maintained
Identify: Three Key Features
MetadataHierarchiesRinggold ID
Univ Calif System
UCLA
Med School Coll of L&S
UCSD
Div of Physical Sci
UCLA: Univ Calif Los Angeles8783
UCLA: Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro
Alvarado33177
UCLA: Universidad Contemporanea de las
Americas376277
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The Thing Inside the Thing
Ringgold’s Mission
To provide identifiers and structured data to power the
efficient exchange of information throughout the scholarly
research community
...and beyond.
Thank youChristine Orr
Sales Director, North America
Tel: 540.359.6620
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1362-3330
www.ringgold.com
Clean Data. Confident Decisions.