Persistent Identification for Conferences

Data Science Journal, vol. 21

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. 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.

Authors 6

1. Julian Franken corresponding

   Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)

   Affiliation as printed

   TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover

2. Aliaksandr Birukou

   Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

   Affiliation as printed

   Springer Nature, Heidelberg, DE; Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow

   Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow

   Springer Nature, Heidelberg, DE

3. Kai Eckert

   Stuttgart Media University

   Affiliation as printed

   Stuttgart Media University, Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence

4. Wolfgang Fahl Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen, i5, Aachen

5. Christian Hauschke

   Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)

   Affiliation as printed

   TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover

6. Christoph Lange Aachen

   Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology · RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen, i5, Aachen; Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin

   Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin

   RWTH Aachen, i5, Aachen