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The rapid increase of scientific digital assets in the last years has made clear that digital identifiers are crucial for effectively publishing, accessing and managing digital information in e-science contexts. From persistent keys for access to digital objects in network environments, the concept of persistent identifiers has been more recently extended to identify also physical objects like people, institutions and any type of relevant entity in the e-Science domain, opening the way to the creation of an integrated information space where a network of resources can be resolved, linked, navigated and analyzed, as the Linked Open Data approach envisions for the Web. However, the creation and full exploitation of this valuable network of connections is currently hindered by the fragmentation and lack of coordination of the digital identifier ecosystem. The aim of this paper is to propose an open, distributed and scalable infrastructure for interoperating existing Persistent Identifiers and other digital identifier systems (like Cool URIs) in e-science, overcoming geographical, disciplinary and organizational boundaries. The Digital Identifier interoperability infrastructure is presented as a cross-cutting solution of core services enabling interoperability at three different levels: identifier, co-reference and semantic.
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An author for example may have multiple identifiers from different systems, like discovery services (e.g. Google scholar profile, AuthorClaim, ORCID), libraries (VIAF, ISNI), disciplinary systems (arXiv, PubMed Author ID), publishers (Scopus ID, Researcher ID) or social networks (LinkedIn, Research Gate), and this redundancy makes difficult to link the author to his/her research activities and scholarly work, having strong consequences in terms of discovery, reputation and impact tracking.
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Several initiatives like the Persistent Object Identifiers seminar at The Hague in June 2011 and the Links That Last workshop in Cambridge in July 2012 have highlighted the need of developing a co-ordinated solution to identifier issues across the PI and the Linked Data community, as stated for example in the Den Haag Manifesto available at http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=462.
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Available at http://93.63.166.138/demonstrator/demo7/.
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The storage and access components of the infrastructure are based on Apache Hadoop, a scalable software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data.
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Available at http://api.okkam.org/search/.
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The user can select among a number of relations types including OWL meta-relations such as owl:EquivalentProperty, owl:EquivalentClass, owl:SubClass, owl:SubProperty and SKOS meta-relations skos:exact, skos:close, skos:broader, skos:narrower.
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Bazzanella, B., Bouquet, P. (2016). An Interoperability Infrastructure for Digital Identifiers in e-Science. In: Calvanese, D., De Nart, D., Tasso, C. (eds) Digital Libraries on the Move. IRCDL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 612. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41938-1_17
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