Using Persistent Identifiers to Demonstrate the Value of ICPSR Membership
Megan Chenoweth, Elisabeth Shook
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based organization that holds over 20,000 social science research data collections. To demonstrate the value of consortium membership, ICPSR must show member institutions evidence that their faculty and students are using, sharing, and publishing with data held at ICPSR. This presentation will highlight two projects at ICPSR that employ Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs to draw connections between ICPSR data, the individuals that collect and use it, and their affiliation with ICPSR member organizations. One project aims to enhance metadata on principal investigators (PIs) of ICPSR data collections with ROR IDs. The other uses open bibliographic data to connect citations in ICPSR’s Bibliography of Data-related Literature to ICPSR member institutions. Both projects enable ICPSR to share information with members about how their faculty and students are using ICPSR data and platforms.