creating an international set of identifier principles
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CREATING AN INTERNATIONAL SET OF IDENTIFIER PRINCIPLESLAYING OUT A PLAN FOR ISO TC46/SC9 IDENTIFIERS AND THEIR RATIONALE
TODD A. CARPENTER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NISO & SECRETARY, ISO TC 46/SC 9
JANUARY 23, 2018PIDAPALOOZA, GIRONA, SPAIN
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ISO TC 46/SC 9 – INFORMATION & DOCUMENTATION –IDENTIFICATION & DESCRIPTION
• ISO –The International Standardization Organization, a non-governmental worldwide standards setting body comprised of national member bodies
• Over 750 Technical Committees & Subcommittees
• Technical Committee 46 – Information & Documentation
• Subcommittee 9 – Identification & Description
• Standards such as ISBN, ISSN, DOI, ISRC, ISAN.
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IDENTIFICATION IS MUCH MORE THAN DISAMBIGUATION
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-4
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HTTP://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-8320-0491
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IT IS NOT THE DISAMBIGUATION OR THE RESOLVABILITY OF A
PID THAT MAKES IT VALUABLE.
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IT IS NOT THE DISAMBIGUATION OR THE RESOLVABILITY OF A
PID THAT MAKES IT VALUABLE.
IT IS THE INFRASTRUCTURETHAT SUPPORTS THE PID THAT
CREATES VALUE
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SOME BACKGROUND
• During the Plenary Meeting in Washington, DC, TC46/SC9 heard of interesting new work, and the developments of a new cross-industry group that was forming, the Linked Content Coalition (LCC)
• The framework, developed by RightsCom, was for the UK Copyright Hub.
• It included a set of principles for identification, another set of principles for messaging metadata about identifiers, and a set of reference models for expressing rights data.
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ELEMENTS OF LCC PRINCIPLES OF IDENTIFICATION
• Identifiers should be public
• Identifiers should be persistent
• Granularity to suit needs
• Designated manifestations
• Resolvable
• No intelligence in the characters
• Explicit in scope
• Unique in their domain
• Trustworthy
• Assigned early in the creation process
• Avoid co-reference and ambiguity
• Capable of multiple resolution
• Have stable governance
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THE LINKED CONTENT COALITION
• The first implementation of these principles is the RDI (Rights Data Integration) project, a part-EU-funded initiative which started in October 2013 and concluded in December 2015.
• The Copyright Hub, a not-for-profit, industry-led initiative, capable of linking scalably to the growing network of right registries, copyright-related databases and digital copyright exchanges, to facilitate cross-border and cross-sector copyright licensing.
• The ARDITO project, an ambitious EU-funded initiative to kick-start a digital rights information network is building on some of the LCC’s initial work
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IT HAD BEEN THREE YEARS…, COME ON…
• We have the authority to pursue our own work.
• We should not be waiting around for LCC to work out its intellectual property issues with RightsCom.
• There wasn’t consensus on the LCC Principles of Identification
• Were the LCC Principles of Identification exactly what TC 46/SC 9 wants to say about the future of identification?
• TC46/SC 9 decided to purseu development of a guiding principles document of its own.
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IN PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, THIS SUMMER…
• ISO TC46/SC 9 decided forego waiting on LCC and launch a project of our own
• It decided to collectively draft a Framework for the Identification of Cultural Content
• An SC 9 Ad hoc group is being launched and will proceed to produce an ISO Technical Report.
• It should be produced in the next 12 months.
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THE PROPOSED DOCUMENT SHOULD CONTAIN:
• A glossary of terminology relevant to TC46/SC9 identifiers (and others)
• A philosophy for why ISO identifiers exist and why they are suitable for trade
• A core set of relevant characteristics and expectations for ISO identifiers
• Defining the general business case guidelines for ISO identifiers
• An acknowledgement that there are other communities developing IDs, but why are ISO identifiers structured they way they are and for what purpose
• A justification for the ongoing maintenance of identifiers and identification systems
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THE PROPOSED DOCUMENT SHOULD FOCUS ON THE CORE VALUES THAT ISO IDENTIFIERS BRING
• The value of canonical data
• The value of governance
• The value of consensus
• The value of validation
• The value of support (technical, financial & social)
• The value of community
• The value of review
• The value of sustainability
• The value of promotion
• The value of interoperability
• The value of extensibility
• The value of multi-sectoriality
• The value of certification
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SOME OF MY OWN IDEAS ABOUT THINGS THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD INCLUDE:
• The values of community support and engagement in the development process and their importance
• The openness of ISO identifiers along with a minimal level of metadata to understand the referent
• The interoperability of identifier systems sufficient that others can engage meaningfully with the data, in multiple extensible serializations as needed.
• Action-ability in linking those identifiers with other information on the web, such that they can easily be used in networked information, especially with other related identifiers
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MORE OF MY OWN IDEAS ABOUT THINGS THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD INCLUDE:
• Canonical nature of ISO identifiers and metadata such that it can be trusted in trade
• Mechanisms to ensure there are no duplication or reuse of identifiers, and that remedies be implemented to fix any data errors
• Granular enough identification of the referent to support relevant business cases
• That ISO identification systems be built to support defined business cases.
• There need to be ongoing governance and maintenance of the identification system
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WHAT THINGS DO YOU THINK THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD INCLUDE?
• <DISCUSSION>
• </DISCUSSION>
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THANK YOU!TODD A. CARPENTERExecutive DirectorNational Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Secretary, ISO Technical Committee 46, Subcommittee 9, Information & Documentation - Identification & Description
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