Domain Repositories Enriching the Global Research Infrastructure
Channel: Environmental Data Initiative
Date: 2022-04-20

Domain repositories have long provided a suite of services to the communities built around them including metadata management and data discovery tools, data access and preservation, and identification of resources created by and of interest to the community. As a result, domain repositories are central to important and thriving research communities. Recently a global research infrastructure for identifying and tracking many kinds of research objects has emerged. This includes Crossref (https://www.crossref.org/), originally for journal articles and books, DataCite (https://datacite.org/), originally for datasets but expanding to other research objects, as well as ORCID (https://orcid.org/) for identification of people and ROR (https://ror.org/) for organizations. Crossref and DataCite initially focused on the creation of research object identifiers (DOIs). As researchers start to use these identifiers, it is clear that the connections enabled by these identifiers add considerable value. In order to enable these connections the growing, global research infrastructure needs content beyond minimal identification and citation metadata. Domain repositories are uniquely situated, with the deep knowledge of their communities, to extend their services by providing connections and content to deliver additional metadata to enrich the global research infrastructure. This talk by Ted Habermann (https://metadatagamechangers.com/) will share several recent examples that demonstrate the power of enriching the global research infrastructure.

Introduction 00:00
- Not Just Datasets Anymore 0:50
- Identification and Connection 2:34
- FAIR Recommendation 3:05
- Improving DataCite FAIRness 7:10

Case #1: Dryad RORs 10:36
- Metadata Mining 12:02
- Identifiers For Organizations 16:56
- Identifying Organizations 19:39
- So What? 20:49
- Measuring Things 25:00
- Measuring Connectivity 25:57

Case #2: UNAVCO Identifiers 27:21
- Metadata Mining 27:45
- Visualizing Connectivity 28:10
- UNAVCO Identifier Improvement 29:15
- Visualizing FAIRness 30:51

Case #3: Repository FAIRness 33:31
- Real-World 39:29
- Three Stories 40:32
- EDI? 42:51
- Starting Point 44:08

Questions? 45:11
- How to account for changing affiliations in identifier spreading? 46:20
- To what extent should metadata be though of as a dynamic vs. a static resource? 50:03