As I said in my analysis:
http://www.rioxx.net/2013/01/29/approaches-to-handling-funders-and-projectids-in-a-rioxx-record/
"If we can implement option 3 without damaging the chances of the overall solution being adopted by repository managers on the common platforms, then this would be an attractive solution for the short term."
Unfortunately, following close consultation with IR platform developers, it became apparent that option 3 (composite funder/projectID) was not viable without significant disruption to established IRs which would inhibit rapid adoption. As the (local) reconciliation of funder with projectID is not actually a pre-requisite for meeting the fairly narrow set of requirements for RIOXX, the decision has been taken to go with option 1. In the meantime, exploratory work towards option 5 continues, and this could if it became a reality be implemented in RIOXX as it stands.
Regarding the demand for funding information - the primary purpose of RIOXX is to collect such information. EPrints and DSpace developers are, right now, figuring out how this should be handled in an IR.
Paul
On 9 Apr 2013, at 03:57, Simeon Warner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I read the RIOXX with particular interest in the handling of funding because this is something we want to do for arXiv and I'd like a general solution. I think there should structure to handle the case of multiple funders properly. I like the analysis given in the post
>
> http://www.rioxx.net/2013/01/29/approaches-to-handling-funders-and-projectids-in-a-rioxx-record/
>
> but I would conclude that option 3 is the only viable one, i.e. the structure:
>
> funding [0 or more]
> - funder [1]
> - projectID [1]
>
> If there was desire to leave the door open to option 5 then perhaps funding could have an optional id attribute like other elements in the RIOXX profile? (Would perhaps be nice for interchange with OpenAire systems.)
>
> I also think it would be unhelpful to have a RIOXX profile that demands an article have funding information -- what if there were none? Would one then have to omit that article from a a RIOXX format metadata feed?
>
> Cheers,
> Simeon
>
>
> On 4/8/13 8:59 PM, David Palmer wrote:
>> When there are multiple funders with multiple project IDs, these tags
>> will repeat. Then, how to show which projectID belongs to which
>> funder? How to associate an URI with either of them?
>>
>> How to show author affiliation on multiple co-authors?
>>
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