THOR Ambassador Webinar
- 1. THOR Ambassador Webinar Thursday October 13, 4-5pmCET
- 2. 2 Agenda: • Update THOR Ambassador Comms (Maaike Duine) • Update THOR Tech (Tom Demeranville) • THOR Future (Josh Brown) • Q&A and Discussions (All)
- 3. THOR – Ambassador Comms Update Y1 review by EC and internal comms evaluation • Presentations: >20.000 people were reached • THOR Workshops: >200 attendees • THOR Webinars: >100 attendees • Website: Viewed 20,388 times by 9,365 unique visitors from 109 countries • Twitter: 450 followers Recommendations for THOR comms: • Increase outreach in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe • Increase reach within Humanities Number of ambassadors is growing • 24 People signed up (Australia (1), Belgium (1), Canada (1), Denmark (1), • Italy (1), Netherlands (4), South Africa (1), Spain (2), UK (11), USA (1) • Pictures and bios included on THOR Project website
- 4. What are THOR ambassadors doing? • Increasing outreach within their communities (eg Presentations, Social Media) • Organise activities (PIDapalooza session, Bootcamp)
- 5. Stay in touch! • Twitter: @project_thor_eu #THORlinks • Quarterly newsletters • Would you like to organise activities? • Development of training materials (THOR Bootcamp) • THOR Knowledge Hub / other materials (eg templates/flyers) • PIDapalooza get together?
- 6. 6 THOR Tech Update • Partner integrations • Work Identifier Types • Event Data • Auto Update
- 7. Partner Integrations • CERN - High Energy Physics • Integration into a complex ecosystem of services, including linking Inspire author profiles and HEPData • PANGAEA - Earth sciences • Showcases a “non-member” approach to ORCID integration, based on Datacite Auto Update • EBI / EMBL - Life sciences • Created an ORCID middleware hub to ease integration in their multi- database and value added service environment • Full details on the THOR blog
- 8. ORCID Work Identifier types • ORCID supports over 30 work types • But they were inconsistently referenced in our API and schema • …and what if yours is not on the list? • We rationalized external identifiers in our v2.0 API, making it easier for developers to understand • And added the ability for members to request new work types! • Protein Data Bank (PDB) identifiers requested by EBI coming soon
- 9. Event Data • Datacite have started to integrate Event Data • Collaborating with Crossref, OpenAire, Pangaea, Elsevier and others in the Scholix framework • Examples of events include references to related data, data citations in journal articles, and new versions of a work • Includes Claiming by and ORCID record via Datacite search and link, enabling datacentres to see who is claiming their research objects • £ million links and counting! • Available through their existing Search and APIs
- 10. 10 ORCID Auto-Update • Whenever a publication or a dataset receives a DOI and its metadata contains ORCID iDs, the ORCID record of the author(s) can be updated automatically. • Authors receive a notification in their ORCID inbox. • They can configure to accept updates automatically in future.
- 11. 11 THOR Future
- 12. Where next for THOR? THOR runs until November 30 2017 In the next 13 months we have plans for: • Communications activities • More PID integrations • R&D for ‘missing PIDs’ We will also be running a major research project on PID adoption across disciplines and borders, and exploring ways to enhance the sustainability of PID providers and services
- 13. Communications activities We have a huge array of communications activities coming up in the last few months of 2016 and throughout 2017: • Three bootcamps • A workshop on data publishing workflows • Disciplinary workshops (Humanities and Social Sciences, Physics, Geoscience, Biomedical) • Focus groups • Project events As well as conference presentations, webinars, workshops at other events PIDapalooza and more!
- 14. More PID integrations We will build on the work we’ve already done to integrate PIDs into production services: • EBI will integrate ORCID IDs into many more databases, and push more identifiers to ORCID records • We are working with Open Access platforms in the humanities to integrate and promote ORCID IDs • The CERN Analysis and Preservation platform is being rolled out with PIDs baked in We will also extend cross-linking of identifier systems (tackling versioning, claiming, creating links) and improve Data Citation
- 15. ‘Missing PIDs’ We are building on our initial work on Organisation Identifiers and we will be publishing two documents (one on the current state of ORG ID provision, and another on governance models for a community-backed ORG ID initiative) in the coming months We will be publishing white papers to start seeking a community-led solution to the challenges of Project IDs and Grant IDs – these are key gaps in the PID landscape that need to be filled if we want to link ‘people, places and things’
- 16. THOR Ambassador Webinar Thursday October 13, 4-5pmCET