Julian Franken TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
Aliaksandr Birukou Springer Nature
Kai Eckert Stuttgart Media University
Wolfgang Fahl RWTH Aachen
Christian Hauschke TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
Christoph Lange RWTH Aachen
Source
Data Science Journal, 21(1), p.11 DOI: 10.5334/dsj-2022-011
Abstract
Persistent identification of entities plays a major role in the progress of digitization of many fields. In the scholarly publishing realm there are already persistent identifiers (PID) for papers (DOI), people (ORCID), organisation (GRID, ROR), books (ISBN) but there is no generally accepted PID system for scholarly events such as conferences or workshops yet.
Source: 10.5334/dsj-2022-011
This article describes the relevant use cases that motivate the introduction of persistent identifiers for conferences. The use cases were mainly derived from interviews, discussions with experts and their previous work. As primary stakeholders who are involved in the typical conference event life cycle researchers, conference organizers, and data consumers were identified. The resulting list of use cases illustrates how PIDs for conference events will improve the current situation for these stakeholders and help with problems they are facing today.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
