Meeting: Identifying, understanding, and overcoming technical issues in identifier systems, Oracle, Arizona, winter 2015-16

越来越多的人意识到需要永久的、全球唯一的物理标本和数字数据标识符，这导致了用于创建、跟踪、解析和查询标识符的新系统的发展。虽然已经发表了关于标识符类型特征及其应用程序的最佳实践的工作，但很少有关于标识符功能或支持它们的服务的实证研究，特别是在发布之前发生的数据生命周期元素。使用标识符的从业人员意识到标识符系统在应用和使用中的技术和社会问题以及限制。然而，对于系统是否以及如何扩展以支持非常大的多学科数据集，或者没有时间想象和解决下一代挑战，人们的理解有限。该奖项将支持召开一次会议，将有经验的标识符从业者聚集在一起，促进活动，以记录该领域的现状，识别和阐明技术问题，并提出解决方案。本次研讨会将重点讨论大数据、跨学科数据的标识符解决方案。多学科参与者将负责想象、讨论、提出和破解下一代数据标识符解决方案。此外，研讨会的一部分将作为黑客马拉松，以便参与者有机会开发一些初始实现。这次会议将通过邀请来自不同领域的不同参与者来寻求跨学科的协同作用，否则这些参与者可能不会一起工作，从而为新的跨社区合作开辟潜力。会议报告和同行评审文章将根据研讨会成果撰写，黑客马拉松活动期间制作的任何软件都将通过Github向公众开放。包括早期职业科学家将提供培训并促进采用新的解决方案和技术，并且将注意确保代表性不足的群体的参与。

A growing awareness of the need for permanent, globally unique identifiers for both physical specimens and digital data has led to the development of new systems for minting, tracking, resolving, and querying identifiers. While work has been published on identifier type characteristics and best practices for their application, there has been little empirical research on the functionality of identifiers or the services that support them, especially on elements of the data lifecycle that occur before publication. Practitioners working with identifiers are aware of the technical and social issues and limitations in the application and use of identifier systems. Yet, there is limited understanding of whether and how systems will scale to support very large, multidisciplinary datasets, or time to imagine and address next generation challenges. This award will support a meeting to bring together experienced identifier practitioners for facilitated activities to document the current state of the field, identify and elucidate the technical issues, and propose solutions. This workshop will focus on identifier solutions to big, interdisciplinary data. Multi-disciplinary participants will be tasked with imagining, discussing, proposing, and hacking next generation solutions for data identifiers. In addition, a portion of the workshop will serve as a hackathon, so that participants have opportunities to develop some initial implementations. This meeting will seek synergy across disciplines by inviting diverse participants from multiple domains who might not otherwise work together, opening potential for new, cross-community collaborations. A meeting report and peer reviewed articles will be written on the workshop outcomes, and any software produced during the hackathon activities will be available for public access through Github. Inclusion of early career scientists will provide training and promote the adoption of new solutions and technologies, and care will be taken to ensure participation by under-represented groups.