September 22, 2016 – Closing the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 2016 Fall Seminars will be a session titled “Bagged and Tagged: How the New Scholarly Infrastructure Is Connecting People, Places, and Things,” which takes a look at the challenges and opportunities for connecting digital scholarship across multiple and often disparate publishing platforms.
The SSP Fall Seminars will be held October 4-5, 2016 at the American Geophysical Union in Washington D.C. Registration for the two-day event is now open, with options for bundled or individual sessions. “Bagged and Tagged: How the New Scholarly Infrastructure Is Connecting People, Places, and Things” will be run from 1 to 5 pm on October 5.
As scholarly communication has evolved to include all manner of digital artifacts — structured and unstructured data files, audio, video — so too has the need for an infrastructure to provide robust and persistent linking between related objects. The “Bagged and Tagged” session, moderated by Greg Suprock, Head of Solutions Architecture at Apex CoVantage, will look at the current efforts to create such an infrastructure. Panelists include Kent Anderson, Chief Executive Officer at RedLink, Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology at CrossRef, and Andres Mori, Data Curator at Digital Science.
From the work that Crossref has done to create persistent article identifiers and the efforts now being undertaken to expand that to data objects, to ORCIDs progress on creating unique identifiers for every researcher and the emerging area of persistent institutional identifiers, this session will explore the current use cases of these technologies and their challenges, and help attendees understand what they need to be doing to support their end-users now and into the future.
We asked Suprock to tell us a little bit more about “Bagged and Tagged…”
What can attendees expect from this seminar?
Attendees will be able to expect an overview about current tools to enable discovery and tying content from disparate sources together in an effective manner. The use of identifiers, metadata, and infrastructure tools all facilitate an academic’s ability to find, confirm, and cite content.
Tell us a little about this group of panelists. How were they selected?
The panelists are Kent Anderson (RedLink), Chuck Koscher (CrossRef), and Andres Mori (Digital Science). They were asked to present because their areas of expertise are complementary to the subject matter, and, not overlapping.
Are there any topics in particular you hope the panelists will address during the seminar?
Chuck will be approaching the issue from the standpoint of how CrossRef has contributed to creating persistent links and connectivity in the STM through the use of digital identifiers and metadata. Andres as Data Curator at Digital Science will talk about how to make institutional and scientific research data more discoverable. Kent will talk about the high level infrastructure needs that enable libraries and publishers to insure their collections are used and used effectively.
What would you like attendees to take away from this seminar?
We would like all attendees to leave the seminar with a better understanding of the role of identifiers, metadata, and the interrelationship of different forms of data in a cross-linked research world.
By Matt Walls, Communications Committee
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