The importance of persistent identifiers a funders perspective

The importance of persistent identifiers: a funder’s perspective Maria Cruz | PID NL Workshop | 20 November 2019

Two PIDs for this talk • The presentation is available https: //doi. org/10. 5281/zenodo. 3543745 • Maria Cruz https: //orcid. org/0000 -0001 -9111 -182 X 2

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About me 4

What happens if you try to find me online and you just know my name? 5 11 maart 2021 Invoegen > Koptekst en voettekst

Perhaps you can try with all my surnames. . . It looks better. 6 11 maart 2021 Invoegen > Koptekst en voettekst

But what if you want to find my astronomy outputs? 7 11 maart 2021 Invoegen > Koptekst en voettekst

Connecting my ORCID with my astronomy outputs 8

My ORCID connected to my astro papers and data 9

NWO and PIDs Why do we think they are important?

NWO’s core task is to fund scientists and research facilities • More than 5, 800 research projects funded every year 11

Connecting people and grants to their outputs • Persistent identifiers provide the opportunity to unambiguously link authors to outputs to grants to funders to institutions etcetera. • And this will allows us to better track the impact from our funding. 12

Currently • We struggle to connect grants/grantees to their outputs • Researchers don’t always register their outputs on our system. • They also do not always cite their funding correctly in their papers, let alone the specific grant numbers. • Even if they do so, grant numbers are not unique. 13

Missing link – Grant IDs “Ultimately we want to get to a situation where every grant has a unique ID, which can then be unambiguously linked to all the outputs – articles, data, code, materials, patents etc. – which arise from it. ” Robert Kiley (Head of Open Research) and Nina Frentrop (Grants Information & Systems Manager) in “Wellcome explains the benefits of developing an open and global grant identifier”, https: //www. crossref. org/blog/wellcomeexplains-the-benefits-of-developing-an-open-and-global-grant-identifier/ 14

PIDs: Informing strategic planning and resource allocation “If every funder were to … expose their grant metadata in a consistent, machine-readable way, it would facilitate the development of applications to help funders get a greatly enhanced picture of the global funding landscape, which in turn would inform strategic planning and resource allocation. ” In “Wellcome explains the benefits of developing an open and global grant identifier”, https: //www. crossref. org/blog/wellcome-explains-the-benefits-of-developing-an-open-and-global-grant-identifier/ 15

PIDs at the core of Open Science 16

Mandatory technical conditions for all publication venues: • Use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for scholarly publications (with versioning, for example, in case of revisions), such as DOI (preferable), URN, or Handle. Strongly recommended additional criteria for all publication venues: • Support for PIDs for authors (e. g. , ORCID), funders, funding programmes and grants, institutions, and other relevant entities. 17 11 maart 2021 Invoegen > Koptekst en voettekst

To be Findable: • F 1. (meta)data are assigned a globally unique and eternally persistent identifier. To be Accessible: • A 1 (meta)data are retrievable by their identifier using a standardized communications protocol. 18 11 maart 2021 Invoegen > Koptekst en voettekst

Thank you!