NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online

The global research infrastructure (GRI) is a network of organizations and repositories that provide persistent identifiers (PIDs) and metadata about research objects (including preprints, peer-reviewed papers, datasets, software, etc.) and the connections between them. CHORUS provides multiple views into this infra-structure constructed using queries and connections chained across Crossref, ScholeXplorer, DataCite and ORCID. These views yield insights into the data, but, maybe more importantly, into the journey of the data from researchers through submission and publication systems, repositories, and APIs into analysis ready data.

We traveled these same journeys and explored some alternative itineraries to improve understanding of their impact during the INFORMATE Project. Informate, a term coined by Zuboff in her book In the Age of the Smart Machine (1988), is the process that translates descriptions and measurements of activities, events and objects into visible information. Our scrapbook brings benefits and bruises of the trip to the surface in the hope of smoothing future travels and highlighting exciting stops along the way.