TY - JOUR
T1 - An Analysis of Identifier Use in SHARE
AU - Hudson-Vitale, Cynthia
AU - Moulaison Sandy, Heather
N1 - Funding Information:
SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem; http://www.share-research.org/) is a free and open metadata index of scholarly research outputs launched in 2013 as a tool to discover, normalize, and link these dispersed digital research assets (Association of Research Libraries, 2014). SHARE gathers, links, cleans, and enhances metadata of research products held in numerous partner repositories (SHARE, 2017), making access to these products available through a number of tools. As indicated on its website, SHARE is “a partnership between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science (COS), underwritten in part by generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.” Since its launch, SHARE has grown to aggregate, enhance, and make searchable metadata about scholarship (e.g., datasets, preprints, code, publications, conferences proceedings) from over 160+ sources including the Dryad Digital Repository (http://datadryad.org/), a repository that hosts data in the sciences; the US-based National Institute of Health (NIH)’s Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT; https://report.nih.gov/) that “provides access to reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities, including information on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH supported research”; and DataCite (https://www.datacite.org/), “a leading global non-profit organization that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data.” SHARE also has aggregated the research products hosted in institutional repositories from a number of universities worldwide.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Published with license by Taylor & Francis © 2017, © Cynthia Hudson-Vitale and Heather Moulaison Sandy.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - SHARE, an open metadata aggregator for scholarly content launched in 2013, provides access to dispersed scholarly content through a powerful application programming interface and set of tools for research discovery and analytics. Metadata is crucial for retrieval in systems like SHARE. The use of unique identifiers promotes the disambiguation of people, places, and objects and the linking of related information in aggregated systems. Yet, identifiers have not been uniformly adopted by organizations and institutions worldwide. This column seeks to identify and explore the extent of identifier use in the SHARE catalog.
AB - SHARE, an open metadata aggregator for scholarly content launched in 2013, provides access to dispersed scholarly content through a powerful application programming interface and set of tools for research discovery and analytics. Metadata is crucial for retrieval in systems like SHARE. The use of unique identifiers promotes the disambiguation of people, places, and objects and the linking of related information in aggregated systems. Yet, identifiers have not been uniformly adopted by organizations and institutions worldwide. This column seeks to identify and explore the extent of identifier use in the SHARE catalog.
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U2 - 10.1080/10572317.2017.1383749
DO - 10.1080/10572317.2017.1383749
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038411551
VL - 49
SP - 297
EP - 303
JO - International Information and Library Review
JF - International Information and Library Review
SN - 1057-2317
IS - 4
ER -