1. Oh, youre that Cameron Neylon Why effective identity management is critical to the development of open research

2. Oh, youre that Cameron Neylon Why effective identity management is critical to the development of open researchfuture 3. Who am I? 4. friendfeed.com/cameronneylontwitter.com/cameronneylonblog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopenopenwetware.org/wiki/User:Cameron_Neylon slideshare.net/cameronneylonviddler.com/cameronneylon 5. I am all these differentpeople to different people at different times 6. http://www.ickr.com/photos/paolomazzoleni/436307747 CC-BY 7. It matters to me... http://www.ickr.com/photos/bdunnette/167010858 CC-BY-SA 8. ...credit for what Ive done http://www.ickr.com/photos/gail/309568668 CC-BY 9. ...it matters to him... 10. ...there are things you dont want to be associated with... 11. ...what if youre this guy (or one of his friends) and want to work in vaccine research...? 12. ...funders want more information on outputs 13. More measurement http://www.ickr.com/photos/redjar/136165399 CC-BY-SA 14. Greater diversity of outputs 15. ...serious consequences http://www.ickr.com/photos/erix/27946743 CC-BY 16. ...and were spending 12Bof the taxpayers money http://www.ickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2143212474 CC-BY 17. ...it might be nice to get this right 18. ...it might be nice to get this right(ish) 19. ...but thats all a bit negative http://www.ickr.com/photos/bensonkua/3165739586 CC-BY-SA 20. what about a positive view? http://www.ickr.com/photos/29412527@N04/3393371408 CC-BY 21. ...if I want to seemore open data http://www.ickr.com/photos/swanksalot/2704017177 CC-BY-SA 22. ...a more diverse research community http://www.ickr.com/photos/untitlism/22800371 CC-BY 23. ...if I want people to agree to referee requests... 24. ...then they need to berecognised and rewarded http://www.ickr.com/photos/wmjas/68005012 CC-BY-SA 25. Rewards can be big...http://www.ickr.com/photos/natematias/310642831 CC-BY-SA 26. ...or small... 27. ...but need to be recognised 28. ...trusted http://www.ickr.com/photos/joi/2941559903 CC-BY 29. ...and unambiguouslylinked to one person http://www.ickr.com/photos/frielp/2661943 CC-BY 30. In todays world with its diverseoutputs and metrics anyassessment that cannot be independently and automatically replicated is not credible. 31. For usability,transparency,and reliability,we need a clearresearcher id http://www.ickr.com/photos/_dietrich/2402860858 CC-BY 32. So what should it look like?http://www.ickr.com/photos/37868257@N05/3546402630 CC-BY 33. A token, not an authentication mechanism 34. For researchers,by researchers 35. The property of the individual, not controlledby a commercial group 36. ...or their institution 37. Any centralised authoritymust represent all thestakeholders not justentrenched interests. 38. Future proof, portable, and native to the open data web. 39. ...whose data do you trust? http://is.gd/thVr 40. Wetrustpeople......notobjects 41. A semantic social web of objects (and data,and process and...) 42. (Someof)thepeopleItrust... ...indierentways andfordierent things 43. No single metric will work forevery person or purpose... 44. ...but with robust identity tokens we can build metrics for the purpose at hand 45. We can build a reward structure that supports amore diverse and open research community. 46. But more importantly 47. We can build and manage the trust networks that will let us navigate an open web of data.