1. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project Sydney eScholarship, University Library Sten Christensen

2. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project ›Variant names -Sten Christensen; S Christensen; SP Christensen... ›Disambiguation – “Will the real Ross Coleman please stand up” -Ross Coleman - Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities -Ross Coleman Director Sydney eScholarship, University of Sydney Library ›Managing multiple identities › - Thompsons ID; Scopus; email address, Department Who are you? Untangling the mess. 2

3. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project ›Match and manage data, outputs, grants and improve discoverability ›Increase the accuracy of the HERDC and ERA counts ›Tracking researchers as the move about ›Authority control Why is this important? 3

4. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project ›National Library of Australia (NLA) project funded by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) ›The Aim: Adapt the NLA’s People Australia infrastructure so that the research sector could contribute and manage their party records and obtain NLA-issued persistent identifiers for their records about researchers and research organisations. › The Project 4

5. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project For researchers the aim was to provide: ›One identifier, issued by the NLA, for each researcher to which all of his or her other identifiers can resolve. ›A public identifier. ›A persistent identifier for us to use ›Example: http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-630330http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-630330 5

6. Contributed Party Records (Yellow) NLA Identity Record (Blue) Source: ANDS Bootcamp Australian National University 12 August 2010. B Dewhurst.

7. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project How will it work? 7

8. Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Party Infrastructure Description Final Draft27 August 2010

14. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project ›We need to provide the NLA with data so we can give our researchers persistent id’s ›Some important points to note: -This is easier said than done. -There is no single point for data – it is kept in a number of systems that do not effectively talk to each other. -No one is responsible for this What do we do now? 14

15. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project ›The Aim: To build a comprehensive record about a researcher, their outputs, affiliations, data and grants. ›It is hoped that this system will be installed next year 2012. ›Watch this space. Master Data Manager 15