- Join us on the CD2H Slack #Attribution channel to chat about the CD2H Attribution efforts, ask/answer questions, network, and share relevant files or announcements.
- The contributor attribution model and related components are actively being developed. Please check it out, we welcome input and feedback.
It is very difficult to know who is contributing to research and what those contributions are. This project enabled the tracking and attribution of diverse contributions across the workforce to support credit for work, better understanding of what skills and activities are needed, and to incentivize participation.
There has been a fundamental shift to recognize both the interdisciplinary, team-based approach to science as well as the hundreds and thousands of more fine-grained contributions of varying types and intensities that are necessary to move science forward. Unfortunately, little infrastructure exists to identify, aggregate, present, and (ultimately) assess the impact of these contributions. These significant problems are technical as well as social and require an approach that assimilates cultural and social aspects of these problems in an open and community-driven manner. Ongoing efforts include the development of a contribution role ontology (built on CRedIT through the CRedIT ontology) to support modeling of the significant ways in which the translational workforce contributes to research; better understanding of the types of research objects generated; and mining of acknowledgements section of publications to harvest existing contributor roles to serve as a data source to drive additional development. All work was carried out in a collaborative, open, and friendly manner with an eye toward making credit and attribution easier for everyone.
This work helps to support and enhance a collaborative informatics community by fostering and promoting the development of an academic attribution and reimbursement framework for informatics products and processes. These processes could facilitate the contribution to be used for academic promotion and recognition.
- Want to ask a question or just say hi? Please do! If you have already onboarded you can find us on the #Attribution channel on the CD2H Slack
| Point person (github handle) | Site |
|---|---|
| Kristi Holmes (@kristiholmes) | Northwestern |
| Lead(s) (github handle) | Site |
|---|---|
| Kristi Holmes (@kristiholmes) | Northwestern |
| Nicole Vasilevsky (@nicolevasilevsky) | OHSU |
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| Acknowledgements | Application scaffold for entities and relationships extracted from PubMed Central publications |
| Contributor Role Ontology | This ontology provides contribution roles for use in crediting persons or organizations |
| Credit Ontology | An OWL implementation of CRediT; a high-level classification of the diverse roles performed in the work leading to a published research output in the sciences |
| Research Outputs Ontology | This ontology provides scholarly research outputs, for use in crediting persons or organizations |
- An increased knowledge base of contribution / attribution data available
- CRedIT Ontology
- Contributor Role Ontology (CRO) released & enhanced and ready to pilot in research information systems
- CRO is available in various ontological resources (Bioportal, Ontobee)
- CRO is available in multiple formats (OWL, OBO)
- A summary statement describing the components of the architecting attribution project (e.g. the CRO, the annotation file format, etc.) and how they interoperate.
- Best practices for attribution and use of attribution are documented in the Reusable Data Guidebook (RDG) to support attribution in CTS at the local level
- A Critical Reference Annotation Guide
- Draft Contribution Model Specification
- Attribution workshop Attribution F2F notes and community building via abstracts and presentations)
- Community events bring together community members from across different aspects of the CTSA program and beyond