Simon Porter1
1Digital Science, London, United Kingdom
Biography:
Simon Porter is VP of Research Futures at Digital Science. He has forged a career transforming university practices in how data about research is used, both from administrative and eResearch perspectives. As well as making key contributions to research information visualization, he is well known for his advocacy of Research Profiling Systems and their capability to create new opportunities for researchers.
Simon came to Digital Science from the University of Melbourne, where he worked for 15 years in roles spanning the Library, Research Administration, and Information Technology.
Abstract:
Proposed session description: One of the promising functions of RAiD identifiers is their ability to represent a research activities as they evolve. As research activities develop over time, RAid workflows shift from structured definition, to providing structure for new research outputs that the activity creates, and then finally to contributing to the discovery and provenance infrastructure necessary to build trust in research.
Using the figshare project as a proxy for a RAiD activity definition, we demonstrate how RAid can facilitate the flow of metadata from creation through to publication – automatically creating publication authorship details from associated ORCiDs, and providing incentives for researchers to improve their ORCiD records in the process.
Finally, by linking publication outputs to RAiD identifiers (our stand in figshare project), we demonstrate the advantages of leaving a RAiD id provenance trail in your research publication – making it easier to distinguish research that has been created over time vs fabricated outputs that may have been created by Paper Mills using generative AI.