Florida State University

The Florida State University's collaborative planning project addresses the IMLS priority of establishing a shared national digital platform. It will explore researcher participation in research identity management systems. In particular, it will examine researcher perceived value of research identity metadata, motivations to participate in and commit to online research identity management systems, and contribute to research identity data curation. The National Digital Platform proposed by the IMLS community, in addition to shared content, software, and hardware modules, may need to provide shared research-based knowledge for effective design, configuration, and management of those resources. A shared design knowledge base is necessary to design effective access to library resources, to recruit users, to build communities around those resources, and to engage them in library events and activities, which may include the curation of research identity and authority data. This project will contribute towards that need.