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

越来越多的人认识到，物理标本和数字数据都需要永久的、全球唯一的标识符，这导致了新系统的开发，用于铸造、跟踪、解析和查询标识符。虽然已经发表了关于标识符类型特征及其应用最佳做法的工作，但很少有关于标识符功能或支持标识符的服务的实证研究，特别是关于数据生命周期中在发布之前发生的要素的实证研究。从事识别特征工作的从业人员了解识别特征系统的应用和使用方面的技术和社会问题及局限性。然而，人们对系统是否以及如何扩展以支持非常大的多学科数据集的理解有限，或者想象和解决下一代挑战的时间有限。该奖项将支持召开一次会议，召集经验丰富的标识符从业者，开展促进活动，记录该领域的现状，识别和阐明技术问题，并提出解决方案。本次研讨会将重点关注跨学科大数据的标识符解决方案。多学科参与者将负责想象，讨论，提出和破解数据标识符的下一代解决方案。此外，研讨会的一部分将作为一个黑客，使参与者有机会开发一些初步的实现。 本次会议将通过邀请来自多个领域的不同参与者来寻求跨学科的协同作用，这些参与者可能不会在一起工作，从而为新的跨社区合作开辟潜力。会议报告和同行评审的文章将写在研讨会的成果，并在黑客活动期间产生的任何软件将通过Github提供给公众访问。将早期职业科学家包括在内将提供培训，促进采用新的解决方案和技术，并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.