EAGER: Tracing the Use of Research Resources Using Persistent Citable Identifiers

EAGER：使用持久可引用标识符跟踪研究资源的使用情况

• 批准号: 1448480
• 负责人: Matthew Mayernik
• 金额: $ 28.17万
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1448480&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Tracing; Use; Research; Resources

Research organizations, data repositories, and universities are beginning to assign persistent web-accessible identifiers to scientific resources. Assigning these persistent identifiers serves two crucial purposes. First, they are assumed to increase the traceability and reusability of scientific resources by allowing data sets, software, and other resources to be cited within the scientific literature. Second, without such traceability, it is difficult, if not impossible, to develop tools to measure the impact such resources have within the communities they belong to, or to understand the spread of that impact. Significant progress has been made in the past few years in the development of recommendations, policies, and procedures for creating and promoting these citable identifiers. While these efforts have raised the awareness of citation principles, which primarily address solutions to this issue moving forward, little progress has been made in tracking how data sets and other digital resources have actually been identified and cited in the past. This project focuses on developing efficient and extensible computational approaches to such attribution tracking. This effort will inform broader efforts to understand how scientific communities benefit from the use of scientific resources, facilities, and services. Using a multifaceted experimental design, the project examines whether resources with persistent identifiers receive more attribution (through citations or acknowledgements) than those that do not. The research questions focus on the benefits of assigning persistent identifiers to scientific resources, namely, whether the overall citations of such resources increase, and whether the traceability of such citations of resources increased with resource persistent identifiers. The outcomes and contribution of this project center on providing insight into 1) whether human or computational approaches compare favorably in terms of their accuracy and efficiency in finding relevant references to scientific resources, 2) whether persistent identifiers provide quantifiable benefit in terms of increasing the amount a resource is referenced by users, and 3) whether persistent identifiers are being included in significant numbers in references to scientific resources.

研究组织、数据存储库和大学开始为科学资源分配持久的可通过网络访问的标识符。分配这些持久标识符有两个重要目的。首先，它们被认为通过允许在科学文献中引用数据集、软件和其他资源来提高科学资源的可追溯性和可重用性。其次，如果没有这种可追溯性，就很难（如果不是不可能的话）开发工具来衡量这些资源在其所属社区内的影响，或者了解这种影响的传播。过去几年，在制定创建和推广这些可引用标识符的建议、政策和程序方面取得了重大进展。虽然这些努力提高了人们对引用原则的认识，主要解决这一问题的解决方案，但在跟踪过去如何实际识别和引用数据集和其他数字资源方面几乎没有取得任何进展。该项目的重点是开发高效且可扩展的计算方法来进行此类归因跟踪。这项工作将为更广泛的努力提供信息，以了解科学界如何从科学资源、设施和服务的使用中受益。 该项目采用多方面的实验设计，检查具有持久标识符的资源是否比不具有持久标识符的资源获得更多归因（通过引用或致谢）。研究问题集中在为科学资源分配持久标识符的好处，即此类资源的总体引用是否增加，以及此类资源引用的可追溯性是否随着资源持久标识符的增加而增加。该项目的成果和贡献集中于提供以下方面的见解：1）人类方法或计算方法在查找科学资源相关参考的准确性和效率方面是否具有优势，2）持久标识符是否在增加数量方面提供可量化的好处用户引用资源，以及 3) 在对科学资源的引用中是否包含大量持久标识符。

项目成果

Scholarly resource linking: Building out a “relationship life cycle”: Scholarly Resource Linking: Building out a “Relationship Life Cycle”

学术资源链接：构建“关系生命周期”：学术资源链接：构建“关系生命周期”

• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501037
• 发表时间: 2018-01
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• 作者: Mayernik; Matthew S.
• 通讯作者: Matthew S.

Assessing the uptake of persistent identifiers by research infrastructure users

评估研究基础设施用户对持久标识符的采用情况

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175418
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: PLOS ONE
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Mayernik MS;Maull KE
• 通讯作者: Maull KE