5.3 Utilising technological advancements and existing data sources
Since ERA 2010, advancements in data collection and analytic technologies have occurred.
The ARC is currently investigating possible sources of already existing data as well as ways to automate data collection, thus reducing the work required of universities. For example, in ERA 2018, ORCID iDs were collected during submission. ORCID, a non-profit organisation, provides a persistent digital identifier (ORCID iD) to individual researchers. The ORCID iD is created and managed by the individual researcher. Currently, it is optional for universities to provide the ORCID iDs of their researchers in their ERA submissions. Further, during the ERA 2018 process, it was optional to provide Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for research outputs. The DOI is maintained by a non-profit organisation, the International DOI Foundation. Like ORCID iDs, the DOI is a persistent digital identifier used to identify individual research outputs.
Issues to be explored
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ORCID iDs should be mandatory for ERA. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. a. What are the advantages and/or disadvantages? Please explain your answer. The automatic harvesting of output data using ORCID iDs would streamline a university’s submission process. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. a. What are the advantages and/or disadvantages? Please explain your answer DOIs should be mandatory for ERA. Strongly agree; Agree; Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree; Strongly disagree. Please explain your answer. a. What are the advantages or disadvantages? Please explain your answer. Are there new ways to collect data to reduce the cost and burden to universities of participating in ERA and EI whilst maintaining the robustness of the ERA and EI process? Yes/No. Please explain your answer. a. What are the advantages and/or disadvantages? Please explain your answer.
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